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.

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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

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Other Word Forms

• CinemaScopic adjective

Example Sentences

“The best observations are made with just your eyes, which offer great CinemaScope viewing,” Krupp said.

From Los Angeles Times

Almost half of the 44 artists in “Ordinary People” are first-generation, born in the tumultuous period between the Roaring ’20s’ collapse into the Great Depression and the end of World War II. They matured during decades when camera images, still and moving, from broadsheets and tabloids to television and CinemaScope, became ubiquitous in American life.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s a book about CinemaScope, and a book in CinemaScope,” he says proudly.

From Los Angeles Times

Percival notes that since anamorphic lenses yield a wider, more cinematic aspect ratio than standard television fare, “If you were to take our dailies, they would be in Scope” — CinemaScope, the super-widescreen format.

From Los Angeles Times

Movies were cut for time, pockmarked with commercials; the TV picture was not as sharp as the film image; screens at first were small, and their 3:4 “standard” aspect ratio, while it mirrored movies of the ’30s and ’40s, was unfriendly to Cinemascope and VistaVision and the like.

From Los Angeles Times