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  2. Anamorphic format - Wikipedia

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    The 40-140 anamorphic was used on several Nouvelle Vague movies such Lola (1961) or Jules and Jim (1962). Panavision adapted the Angenieux 10× zoom for anamorphic productions. The 50-500 APZA was part of the standard anamorphic production package supported by Panavision from mid 1960s to the end of the 1970s.

  3. Anamorphosis - Wikipedia

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    The Stone Age cave paintings at Lascaux may make use of anamorphic technique, because the oblique angles of the cave would otherwise result in distorted figures from a viewer's perspective. [citation needed] The ancient historians Pliny and Tzetzes both record a sculpture competition between Alcamenes and Phidias to create an image of Minerva ...

  4. Widescreen display modes - Wikipedia

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    This is the proper mode to display anamorphic video. If used for standard aspect ratio video, everything on the screen will appear wider than normal. Contrast this with anamorphic video displayed without processing on a 4:3 display, in which people on the screen will appear taller than normal. This is also known as the 16:9 mode.

  5. Angénieux - Wikipedia

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    Optimo Anamorphic 56‑152 A2S - Standard Compact Anamorphic Zoom Lens; Optimo Anamorphic 30‑72 A2S - Wide Angle Compact Anamorphic Zoom Lens; Optimo Anamorphic 42-420 A2S - Version of Optimo 44-440 A2S with new image characteristics [3]

  6. Anamorphic widescreen - Wikipedia

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    Original, Anamorphic and letterbox. Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 standard-definition frame, for example) with a narrower aspect ratio, reducing the horizontal resolution of the image while keeping its full original vertical resolution.

  7. List of motion picture film formats - Wikipedia

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    Projection lenses indicates whether spherical (normal) or anamorphic lenses are used on the projector, and if anamorphic lenses, what anamorphic power is used. Formats are listed in chronological order and by release date in the case of multiple formats within one year, if this can be determined.

  8. CinemaScope - Wikipedia

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    CinemaScope logo from The High and the Mighty (1954). CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 [1] to 1967, and less often later, for shooting widescreen films that, crucially, could be screened in theatres using existing equipment, albeit with a lens adapter.

  9. Pan and scan - Wikipedia

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    A 2.35:1 film still panned and scanned to smaller sizes. At the smallest, 1.33:1 (4:3), nearly half of the original image has been cropped. Pan and scan is a film editing method of adjusting widescreen film images, rendering them compatible for broadcast on 4:3 aspect ratio television screens. [1]