| Re: Movies Formats: why are there so many?
A friend noted that I left off one process in my above descriptions. It was Cinemascope 55
which was only used on two films, "Carousel" and "The King and I". As the name implies
it was an anamorphic lens on large 55mm film. However, it was abandoned by Fox which switched
to 70mm for their big budget productions after these two pictures. As with VistaVision, the larger
the negative, the finer grain the image is. Fox actually created a special printer to restore
these two movies on DVD in their original 55mm format a while ago and they look great.
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