CinemaScope was one of many widescreen formats developed in the 1950s to compete with the popularity of television and bring audiences back to the cinema.
Īnamorphic widescreen was not used again for cinematography until 1952 when Twentieth Century-Fox bought the rights to the technique to create its CinemaScope widescreen technique. However, how this relates to the earlier French invention, and later development, is unclear. Douglass also created special effects and anamorphic widescreen motion picture cameras. In the 1920s, phonograph and motion picture pioneer Leon F. After the war, the technology was first used in a cinematic context in the short film To Build a Fire (based on the 1908 Jack London story of the same name) in 1927 by Claude Autant-Lara. The optical process was called Hypergonar by Chrétien and was capable of showing a field of view of 180 degrees. The process of anamorphosing optics was developed by Henri Chrétien during World War I to provide a wide angle viewer for military tanks.
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In the late 1990s and 2000s, anamorphic lost popularity in comparison to "flat" (or "spherical") formats such as Super 35 with the advent of digital intermediates however, in the years since digital cinema cameras and projectors have become commonplace, anamorphic has experienced a considerable resurgence of popularity, due in large part to the higher base ISO sensitivity of digital sensors, which facilitates shooting at smaller apertures. The word anamorphic and its derivatives stem from the Greek anamorphoo ("to transform", or more precisely "to re-form"), compound of morphé ("form, shape") with the prefix aná ("back, again"). It also refers to the projection format in which a distorted image is "stretched" by an anamorphic projection lens to recreate the original aspect ratio on the viewing screen (not to be confused with anamorphic widescreen, a different video encoding concept that uses similar principles but different means).
When projecting the film, a reverse, complementary lens (of the same anamorphic power) shrinks the image vertically to the original proportions.Īnamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio. Shooting with an anamorphic lens stretches the image vertically to cover the entire film frame, resulting in a higher resolution but distorted image.
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