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Film format table
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The Film Format type includes all current and historical motion picture film formats.
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| x 35 mm film |
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Brainstorm |
35 mm film is the basic film gauge most commonly used for both still photography and motion pictures, and remains relatively unchanged since its introduction in 1892 by William Dickson and Thomas Edison, using film stock supplied by George Eastman....
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| Oldás és kötés | |||
| How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate | |||
| Thief | |||
| Silent Running | |||
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| x VistaVision |
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The Court Jester |
VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by Paramount Pictures in 1954 and based on the Glamorama and Superama widescreen systems.
During the 1950s Paramount did not buy into...
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| The Ten Commandments | |||
| High Society | |||
| x 70 mm film |
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The Ten Commandments |
70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge, with higher resolution than standard 35 mm motion picture film format. As used in camera, the film is 65 mm wide. For projection, the original 65 mm film is printed on 70 mm film. The...
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| Silent Running | |||
| x 16 mm film |
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How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate |
16 mm film refers to a popular, economical gauge of film used for motion pictures and non-theatrical (for instance, industrial) film making. 16 mm refers to the width of the film. Other common film gauges include 8 mm and 35 mm.
16 mm film was...
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| Pi | |||
| The Wrestler | |||
| One For The Girls | |||
| x 8 mm film |
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8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions: the original standard 8mm film, also known as regular 8mm or double 8mm, and Super 8. There are also two other varieties of...
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| x Super 8 mm film |
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Glade Nymfer |
Super 8 mm film, also simply called Super 8, is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8 mm home movie format, and the Cine 8 format.
The film is 8 mm wide, exactly the same as the older...
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| Vivi Berens Private | |||
| x Digital film | Brighton Wok |
Digital film is a cinema production and performance system that works by using a digital representation of the brightness and colour of each pixel of the image. This allows much more flexible post-production in the digital domain than would be...
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| James Balboa: A Wii Sports Tale | |||
| Inland Empire | |||
| x 9.5 mm film |
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9.5 mm film is an amateur film format introduced by Pathé Frères in 1922 as part of the Pathé Baby amateur film system. It was conceived initially as an inexpensive format to provide copies of commercially-made films to home users, although a simple...
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| x IMAX |
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To Fly! |
IMAX (short for Image MAXimum) is a motion picture film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than...
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| Haunted Castle | |||
| Chronos | |||
| Space Station 3D | |||
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| x Single-8 |
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Single-8 is a motion picture film format introduced by Fujifilm of Japan in 1965 as an alternative to the Kodak Super 8 format. The company Konan (that developed the Konan-16 subminiature camera) claims in its history page to have developed the...
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| x CinemaScope |
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Demetrius and the Gladiators |
CinemaScope was a widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967. Anamorphic lenses allowed the process to project film up to a 2.66:1 aspect ratio, almost twice as wide as the conventional format of 1.37:1. Although CinemaScope was shortly made...
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| The Robe | |||
| Bad Day at Black Rock | |||
| Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | |||
| Lady and the Tramp | |||
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| x Cinerama |
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Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146° of arc. It is also the trademarked name for the...
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| x 3-D film |
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Sangaree |
In film, the term 3-D (or 3D) is used to describe any visual presentation system that attempts to maintain or recreate moving images of the third dimension, the illusion of depth as seen by the viewer.
The technique usually involves filming two...
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| The French Line | |||
| Emmanuelle 4 | |||
| Final Destination 4 | |||
| G-Force | |||
| x Anamorphic widescreen |
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James Balboa: A Wii Sports Tale |
Anamorphic widescreen is a videographic technique using rectangular (wide) pixels to store a widescreen image to standard 4:3 aspect ratio. In its current definition as a video term, it originally was devised for widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio...
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| x Negative pulldown |
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Negative pulldown is a characteristic of motion picture film formats. It refers to the number of film perforations that each film frame occupies, as well as whether they are pulled horizontally or vertically. The most common film pulldowns are 4...
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| x 70 mm Todd-AO |
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Jesus Christ Superstar |
Todd-AO is an extremely high definition widescreen film format developed in the mid 1950s. It was co-developed by Mike Todd, a Broadway producer, with American Optical Company in Buffalo, New York. It was memorably characterized by its creator as ...
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| The Sound of Music | |||
| Oklahoma | |||
| Around the World in Eighty Days | |||
| The Miracle of Todd-AO | |||
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| x Kinemacolor |
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Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906, and launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of London in 1908. From...
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| x Circle-Vision 360° |
Circle-Vision 360° is a film technique, refined by The Walt Disney Company, that uses nine cameras for nine huge screens arranged in a circle. The cameras are usually mounted on top of an automobile for scenes through cities and highways, while...
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| x Techniscope |
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Techniscope or 2-Perf is a 35mm motion picture camera film format introduced by Technicolor Italia in 1963. The Techniscope format uses a two film-perforation negative pulldown per frame, instead of the standard four-perforation frame usually...
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| x Super 35 mm film |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
Super 35 (originally known as Superscope 235) is a motion picture film format that uses exactly the same film stock as standard 35 mm film, but puts a larger image frame on that stock by using the negative space normally reserved for the optical...
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| The Rock | |||
| The Matrix | |||
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |||
| Gattaca | |||
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| x 70 mm Grandeur film |
70 mm Grandeur film, promoted as Fox Grandeur, was a 70mm widescreen film format developed by the Fox Film Corporation and used commercially on a small scale in 1929-1931. It is technically very similar to the Todd-AO 70mm system, marketed from 1955...
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| x Technirama |
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Technirama is a screen process that was used by some film production houses as an alternative to CinemaScope. It was first used in 1957 but fell into disuse in the mid 1960s. The process was invented by Technicolor and is an anamorphic process with...
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| x Cinemiracle |
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Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with only a single film produced and released in the format. Like Cinerama it used 3 cameras to capture a 2.59:1 image....
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| x Univisium |
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Univisium (Latin: "unity of images") is a proposed universal film format created by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC and his son, Fabrizio, to unify all future theatrical and television movies into one respective aspect ratio of 2.00:1....
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| x Super Technirama 70 |
Super Technirama 70 was the marketing name for films which were photographed in the 35 mm 8-perf Technirama process and optically enlarged to 70 mm 5-perf prints for deluxe exhibition.
A few of the Super Technirama 70 films (including Circus World...
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| x Super Panavision 70 | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Super Panavision 70 was the marketing brand name used to identify movies photographed with Panavision 70 mm spherical optics between 1959 and 1983.
During the late 1950s the Hollywood filmmaking community decided that changing from filming in the...
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| Brainstorm | |||
| x Polyvision |
Polyvision was the name given to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon. It involved the simultaneous projection of three reels of silent film arrayed in a...
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| x TohoScope |
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Toho Scope is an anamorphic lens system developed in the late 1950s by Toho Studios in response to the popularity of CinemaScope. Its technical specifications are identical to those of CinemaScope. This widescreen format was first used for the black...
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| x MGM Camera 65 |
MGM Camera 65 is a wide-screen film format developed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1950s, as a single-strip substitute for Cinerama. It used 65 mm film stock and a special anamorphic lens developed by Panavision, which imparted a slight horizontal...
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| x Ultra Panavision 70 |
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Ultra Panavision 70 and MGM Camera 65 were the photographic marketing brands — ca. 1957 to 1966 — that identified movies photographed with Panavision-brand 65mm and 70mm anamorphic lenses. The image frame dimensions and the six-track stereophonic...
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| x RCA Photophone |
RCA Photophone was the trade name given to one of four major competing technologies that emerged in the American film industry in the late 1920s for synchronizing electrically recorded audio to a motion picture image. RCA Photophone was a sound-on...
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| x CinemaScope 55 |
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CinemaScope 55 was a large-format version of CinemaScope introduced in 1955, which used a negative size of 55.625 mm (the image itself measured about 52 mm). It was introduced by Twentieth Century Fox as an answer to Paramount's high-definition...
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| x 4-D film |
A 4-D film (sometimes written 4D film) is a marketing term that describes an entertainment presentation system combining a 3-D film with physical effects in the theatre, which occur in synchronization with the film. Because the physical effects are...
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| x 28 mm film |
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28 mm film was introduced by the Pathé Film Company in 1912 under the name Pathé Kok. Geared toward the home market, 28 mm utilized diacetate film stock rather than the flammable nitrate commonly used in 35 mm. The film gauge was deliberately chosen...
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| x Kinoton HDFS |
Kinoton HDFS (High Definition Film System) was a prototype 35 mm motion picture film format proposed by German projector company Kinoton and developed with the film camera company ARRI and the Swiss company Studer. The format was developed between...
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| x Arnoldscope |
Arnoldscope was an experimental 35 mm motion picture film format developed by John Arnold, working in the MGM camera department in the 1950s. The format used normal 35 mm motion picture film, running horizontally, exposing 10 perforations worth of...
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| x IMAX Magic Carpet |
IMAX Magic Carpet is a large format film system, using two IMAX 15/70 mm film format projectors. One of the projectors projects onto a screen in front of the audience, the second projector projects onto a screen under the audience, which is visbile...
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| x Maxivision |
Maxivision 24 and Maxivision 48 are 35 mm motion picture film formats, created by Dean Goodhill in 1999. The system uses normal 35 mm motion picture film, capturing images on 3 perforations of film per frame. The format can run either at the...
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| x Photokinema |
Phono-Kinema (some sources say Photo-Kinema) was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum. The system was used for a small number of short films, mostly made in 1921, of subjects such as actor Frederick Warde reading an...
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| x Showscan |
Showscan is a cinema process developed by Douglas Trumbull. Like some other spectacular wide-screen processes, it uses 70 mm film, but Showscan films and projects at a frame rate of 60 frame/s, 2.5 times as fast as standard cinema (the same fluidity...
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| x DVD-Video |
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Seducing Doctor Lewis |
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant consumer video format in Canada, Europe and Australia. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder (e...
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| Futurama: Bender's Big Score | |||
| Moulin Rouge! | |||
| Pilot | |||
| x Animation |
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Cracking Contraptions |
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and...
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| Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol | |||
| Koochie Koochie Hota Hain | |||
| x Silent film |
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The Whaling Industry |
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized...
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| x High-definition video | Russian Ark |
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1280×720 pixels (720p) or 1920×1080 pixels (1080i/1080p). This article discusses...
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| Helvetica | |||
| The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | |||
| x Real D Cinema | Coraline |
RealD Cinema is a digital 3D stereoscopic projection technology which does not require two projectors, unlike some older 3D stereoscopic projection technology. A high-resolution digital projector using Texas Instruments' DLP Cinema technology or...
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| Up | |||
| Battle for Terra | |||
| Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | |||
| Monsters vs. Aliens | |||
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| x 35 mm Todd-AO | |||
