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4:3 (1.33:1) (generally read as Four-Three, Four-by-Three, or Four-to-Three) for standard television for fullscreen aspect ratio 1.33:1 has been in use since the invention of moving picture cameras, and many computer monitors used to employ the same aspect ratio. 4:3 was the aspect ratio used for 35 mm films in the silent era.
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]
It is also used in computer monitors, where the term "21:9" can represent aspect ratios of 43:18 (2.3 8:1 or 21.5:9) and 12:5 (2.4:1 or 21.6:9) in addition to 64:27. The wider screen provides advantages in multitasking as well as a more immersive gaming experience, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and even wider screens with aspect ratios such as 32:9 (allowing for ...
21:9 movies usually refers to 1024:429 ≈ 2.387, the aspect ratio of digital ultrawide cinema formats, which is often rounded up to 2.39:1 or 2.4:1 Ultrawide resolution can also be described by its height, such as "UW 1080" and "1080p ultrawide" both stands for the same 2560×1080 resolution.
The picture outside of the yellow box is matted out when the film is shown in widescreen. For 4:3 television and home media versions, a large portion of the picture can be used (inside the red box) with an open matte. Open matte example with a slight shift of the image section upwards. Aspect ratio 2.35:1 versus 1.85:1
When composing for 1.85:1, it is known as Super 1.85, since it was larger than standard 1.85. When composing for 2.39:1, there are two methods most frequently used: common center, which keeps the 2.39 extraction area at the center of the film, and common top, which shifts the 2.39 extraction area upwards on the film so that it shares a common top line with a centered 1.85:1 frame.
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.
As an example, 8:5, 16:10, 1.6:1, 8 ⁄ 5 and 1.6 are all ways of representing the same aspect ratio. In objects of more than two dimensions, such as hyperrectangles , the aspect ratio can still be defined as the ratio of the longest side to the shortest side.