VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.
Paramount did not buy into anamorphic systems such as CinemaScope but rather, refined the quality of their flat widescreen system by shooting onto a larger film negative which would yield a finer-grained 35mm print than normal.
As finer-grained film stocks appeared on the market, VistaVision ...
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VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.
Paramount did not buy into anamorphic systems such as CinemaScope but rather, refined the quality of their flat widescreen system by shooting onto a larger film negative which would yield a finer-grained 35mm print than normal.
As finer-grained film stocks appeared on the market, VistaVision was obsoleted. Paramount dropped the format after only seven years, although for another forty years, the format was used by some European and Japanese producers for feature films, as well as American film studios for notable, high resolution special effects which were matted into films
As a response to an industry recession brought about by the popularity of television, the various Hollywood studios turned to large format movies in order to regain audience attendance. The first of these, Cinerama, debuted in September of 1952, and consisted...
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