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MGM Camera 65 is a wide-screen film format developed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1950s, as a...

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 squeeze by a factor of 1.25x. This yielded an aspect ratio of approximately 2.76:1, which was considerably wider than three-strip Cinerama. It was only used on less than a dozen films due to the extremely large and heavy cameras and its unusually wide aspect ratio, which was incompatible with most theaters. 35 mm anamorphic prints made from Camera 65 negatives were usually letterboxed at 2.55:1. On non-MGM productions, the system was known as "Ultra Panavision 70".