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CinemaScope

American  
[sin-uh-muh-skohp] / ˈsɪn ə məˌskoʊp /
Movies, Trademark.
  1. a wide-screen process using anamorphic lenses in photographing and projecting the film.


CinemaScope British  
/ ˈsɪnɪməˌskəʊp /

noun

  1. an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Don’t expect any remastering here, but the visuals using technologies of the day such as Technicolor and CinemaScope hold up and deliver some colorful adventures in the Old West.

From Washington Times Nov. 26, 2021

He and the producers discussed trying to emulate the CinemaScope look of some of those movies.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2021

And each was its director’s first experience with true wide-screen, using lenses and dimensions descended from CinemaScope.

From New York Times Jul. 16, 2020

The newly formed Twentieth Century-Fox ushered in a golden age of westerns, musicals, sweeping epics and the first movie filmed in proprietary CinemaScope, “The Robe.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2019

Abhilash Talkies advertised itself as the first cinema hall in Kerala with a 70mm CinemaScope screen.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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