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VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format that was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954. Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of its flat widescreen system by orienting the 35 mm negative horizontally in the camera gate and ...
Paramount Presents VistaVision: 1954: Paramount: 19-minute promo film: VistaVision Visits Norway: 1954: Paramount: Short film White Christmas: 1954: Paramount: First VistaVision release [1] 3 Ring Circus: 1954: Paramount [2] An Alligator Named Daisy: 1955: Rank: Artists and Models: 1955: Paramount [3] The Desperate Hours: 1955: Paramount: First ...
The film was shot using the VistaVision process and cameras equipped with Leica-S lenses. It involves shooting horizontally on 35mm film stock , which was then scanned, with the intention of also making prints for a 70mm film release, which has the same height and was the most practical format to show the original size of the VistaVision frame ...
The Desperate Hours was the first black-and-white film in VistaVision, Paramount's wide-screen process. The house used in the final seasons of the television series Leave It to Beaver was used for exterior shots of the Hilliards' home.
VistaVision Specials (1954–1957) includes Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot and travelogue “VistaVision Visits”, sometimes produced by James A. Fitzpatrick Wild Men of Africa (1921): four films edited from a featurette of Leonard J. Vandenbergh
Paramount's VistaVision was a larger gauge precursor to 70 mm film. Introduced in 1954, it ran standard 35 mm film through the camera horizontally to achieve a widescreen effect using greater negative area, in order to create a finer-grained four-perforation 35 mm prints in an era where standard monopack stock could not produce finer results.
Just as VistaVision had a few flagship engagements using 8-perf horizontal contact prints and special horizontal-running projectors, there is a bit of evidence [citation needed] that horizontal prints were envisioned for Technirama as well (probably with 4-track magnetic sound as in CinemaScope), but to what extent this was ever done ...
A VistaVision 35 mm horizontal camera film frame (The dotted area shows the area actually used.) The image illustrating the article has inconsistent height characteristics. The caption reads: "A VistaVision 35 mm horizontal camera film frame (The dotted area shows the area actually used.)" OK. But the vertical height of the dotted area (and of ...