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List of motion picture film formats

Index List of motion picture film formats

This list of film formats catalogues formats developed for shooting or viewing motion pictures, ranging from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992 IMAX HD format. [1]

161 relations: Abel Gance, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy ratio, America the Beautiful (Disney film), Anamorphic format, Arena, Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film), Aspect ratio (image), Auguste and Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Bell & Howell, Billy the Kid (1930 film), Biograph Company, Bioscop, Birt Acres, Blacksmith Scene, Blushing Charlie, Carousel (film), Cinéorama, CinemaScope, Cinematograph, Cinemiracle, Cinerama, Circle-Vision 360°, Color motion picture film, Dance Craze, Dean Goodhill, Dickson Greeting, Douglas Trumbull, Eidoloscope, Enoch J. Rector, Film, Film base, Film format, Film gate, Film gauge, Film perforations, Filoteo Alberini, Flying Clipper, Ford Motor Company, Fox Film, Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, Fred Waller, Freeman Harrison Owens, Friese-Greene, Fujifilm, Garden Isle, George Kirke Spoor, George W. Bingham, Great Is My Country, ..., Henri Chrétien, Henri Joly, Herman Casler, Honeymoon (1959 film), IMAX, IMAX Corporation, IMAX Magic Carpet, Impressions de France, John Alfred Prestwich, Joly-Normandin, Kenner Products, Kinetoscope, Kinopanorama, Kinoton, Kinoton HDFS, Kismet (1930 film), Kodak, Krugovaya Kinopanorama, Lee de Forest, List of anamorphic format trade names, List of color film systems, List of film sound systems, Louis Le Prince, Max Skladanowsky, Maxivision, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mike Todd, Monkeyshines, Movie projector, Movietone sound system, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film), Napoléon (1927 film), Negative pulldown, Niagara Falls, Odeon Marble Arch, Oklahoma! (1955 film), Old Ironsides (film), Panavision, Paramount Pictures, Pathé, Persistence of vision, Phonofilm, Photochemistry, Polaroid Corporation, Polavision, Polyvision, Raintree County (film), Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, Roundhay Garden Scene, Run for the Sun, Rune Ericson, Shane (film), Showscan, Silent film, SimEx-Iwerks, Single-8, Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, South Pacific (1958 film), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Super 35, Tango (1998 film), Technicolor, Technirama, Techniscope, The Bible: In the Beginning..., The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, The Female Animal, The King and I (1956 film), The Monte Carlo Story, The Pharaohs' Woman, The Robe (film), The Ten Commandments (1956 film), The Walt Disney Company, Theodore Case, This Is Cinerama, Thomas Edison, Thunder Bay (film), Tiger Child, Todd-AO, Trafalgar Square, Tri-Ergon, Ultra Panavision 70, Universal Pictures, Univisium, Vera Cruz (film), Veriscope, Victor Animatograph Corporation, VistaVision, Vittorio Storaro, Waller Gunnery Trainer, White Christmas (film), Widescreen, William Friese-Greene, William Heise, William Kennedy Dickson, William Wardell, Windjammer (1958 film), Wonderama, Woodville Latham, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, You're in the Army Now, 16 mm film, 20th Century Fox, 28 mm film, 3D film, 70 mm film, 70 mm Grandeur film, 8 mm film, 9.5 mm film. Expand index (111 more) »

Abel Gance

Abel Gance (25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Academy ratio

The Academy ratio of 1.375:1 (abbreviated as 1.37:1) is an aspect ratio of a frame of 35mm film when used with 4-perf pulldown.

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America the Beautiful (Disney film)

America the Beautiful was a Circle-Vision 360° movie attraction in Disneyland In California and Walt Disney World in Florida.

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Anamorphic format

Anamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio.

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Arena

An arena, is a covered or not covered enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events.

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Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring Cantinflas and David Niven, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height.

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Auguste and Louis Lumière

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas; 19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean; 5 October 1864 – 7 June 1948), were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.

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Étienne-Jules Marey

Étienne-Jules Marey (5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 15 May 1904, Paris) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.

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Bell & Howell

Bell and Howell is a U.S.-based former manufacturer of motion picture machinery, founded in 1907 by two projectionists, and was originally headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois.

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Billy the Kid (1930 film)

Billy the Kid is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed in widescreen by King Vidor about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown, billed as "John Mack Brown") and Pat Garrett (Wallace Beery), the man who later killed him.

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Biograph Company

The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916.

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Bioscop

The Bioscop is a movie projector developed in 1895 by German inventors and filmmakers Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil Skladanowsky (1866–1945).

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Birt Acres

Birt Acres (23 July 1854 – 27 December 1918) was an American and British photographer and film pioneer.

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Blacksmith Scene

Blacksmith Scene (also known as Blacksmith Scene #1 and Blacksmithing Scene) is an 1893 American short black-and-white silent film directed by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish-French inventor who, while under the employ of Thomas Edison, developed the first fully functional motion picture camera.

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Blushing Charlie

Blushing Charlie (Lyckliga skitar) is a 1970 Swedish drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman.

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Carousel (film)

Carousel is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name which, in turn, was based on Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play Liliom.

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Cinéorama

Cinéorama was an early film experiment and amusement ride presented for the first time at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

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CinemaScope

CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, for shooting widescreen movies.

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Cinematograph

A cinematograph is a motion picture film camera, which also serves as a film projector and printer.

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Cinemiracle

Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s.

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Cinerama

Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc.

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Circle-Vision 360°

Circle-Vision 360° is a film technique, refined by The Walt Disney Company, that uses nine cameras for nine big screens arranged in a circle.

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Color motion picture film

Color motion picture film refers both to unexposed color photographic film in a format suitable for use in a motion picture camera, and to finished motion picture film, ready for use in a projector, which bears images in color.

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Dance Craze

Dance Craze is a 1981 British documentary film about the English 2 Tone music genre.

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Dean Goodhill

Dean Goodhill (October 23, 1944) is an American film editor who was nominated at the 66th Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for the film The Fugitive.

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Dickson Greeting

Dickson Greeting is an 1891 American short silent film.

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Douglas Trumbull

Douglas Huntley Trumbull (born April 8, 1942) is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor.

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Eidoloscope

The Eidoloscope was an early motion picture system created by Eugene Augustin Lauste, Woodville Latham and his two sons through their business, the Lambda Company, in New York City in 1894 and 1895.

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Enoch J. Rector

Enoch J. Rector (October 9, 1863 – January 26, 1957) was an American boxing film promoter and early cinema technician.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Film base

A film base is a transparent substrate which acts as a support medium for the photosensitive emulsion that lies atop it.

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Film format

A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film, for either stills or filmmaking.

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Film gate

The film gate is the rectangular opening in the front of a motion picture camera where the film is exposed to light.

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Film gauge

Film gauge is a physical property of photographic or motion picture film stock which defines its width.

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Film perforations

Film perforations, also known as perfs and sprocket holes, are the holes placed in the film stock during manufacturing and used for transporting (by sprockets and claws) and steadying (by pin registration) the film.

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Filoteo Alberini

Filoteo Alberini (1865 - 1937) was an Italian cinematographer.

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Flying Clipper

SV Flying Clipper is a steel-hulled five-masted fully rigged tall ship which is intended to be used as a cruise ship.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Fox Film

The Fox Film Corporation was an American company that produced motion pictures, formed by William Fox on 1 February 1915.

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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929

Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, also known as Movietone Follies of 1929 and The William Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, was a black-and-white and color American musical film released by Fox Film Corporation.

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Fred Waller

Frederic Waller (1886 – May 18, 1954) was an American inventor and film pioneer.

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Freeman Harrison Owens

Freeman Harrison Owens (July 20, 1890 – December 9, 1979), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the only child of Charles H. Owens and Christabel Harrison.

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Friese-Greene

Friese-Greene may refer to.

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Fujifilm

, trading as Fujifilm (stylized as FUJiFILM), or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo.

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Garden Isle

Garden Isle is a 1973 short film which was the first short film made using the Omnimax or IMAX cinematographic process.

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George Kirke Spoor

George Kirke Spoor (December 18, 1871 – 24 November 1953) was an early film pioneer who, with Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, founded Essanay Studios in Chicago in 1907.

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George W. Bingham

George W. Bingham was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

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Great Is My Country

Vast is my Native Land (1958), also known as Great is my Country, (r), from the song of the same name, which is featured in the film, by the Russian composer Isaac Dunaevsky) was the first film shot in the Soviet wide-screen film format known as Kinopanorama. The film was directed by Roman Karmen, known for various documentary films produced in the Soviet Union. The music was composed by Kirill Molchanov, a noted composer of music for ballet and opera. The Sovcolor film, which is 90-minutes in length, was premièred on 28 February 1958 at the Mir Kino Theatre in Moscow. The film was screened throughout the USSR. An edited version of the film was screened In June and July, 1958, at the Mayfair Theatre in New York City in conjunction with Soviet Trade Exhibition at the New York Coliseum. The film was released in France on 12 May 1961 as Conquerors of the sea (Pokoriteli morya).

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Henri Chrétien

Henri Jacques Chrétien (1 February 1879, Paris – 6 February 1956, Washington, D.C.) was a French astronomer and an inventor.

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Henri Joly

Henri Joly (1866–1945) was a French inventor and businessman.

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Herman Casler

Herman Casler (March 12, 1867 in Sandwich, Illinois – July 20, 1939 in Canastota, New York) an American inventor, was co-founder of the partnership called the K.M.C.D. Syndicate, along with W.K-L. Dickson, Elias Koopman, and Henry Marvin, which eventually was incorporated into the American Mutoscope Company in December 1895.

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Honeymoon (1959 film)

Honeymoon (Luna de miel), also shown as The Lovers of Teruel in the United States, is a 1959 film by the British director-writer Michael Powell based in part on the ballet El Amor Brujo by Gregorio Martínez Sierra.

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IMAX

IMAX is a system of high-resolution cameras, film formats and film projectors.

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IMAX Corporation

The IMAX Corporation is a Canadian theatre company which designs and manufactures IMAX cameras and projection systems as well as performing film development, production, post production and distribution to IMAX affiliated theatres worldwide.

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IMAX Magic Carpet

IMAX Magic Carpet is a large format film system, using two IMAX 15/70 mm film format projectors.

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Impressions de France

Impressions de France (Impressions of France) is a film about France and the featured attraction in the France Pavilion of Epcot's World Showcase at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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John Alfred Prestwich

John Alfred Prestwich (1874 – 1952) was an English engineer and inventor.

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Joly-Normandin

Joly-Normandin is a motion picture film format.

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Kenner Products

Kenner Products was an American toy company founded in 1946.

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Kinetoscope

The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device.

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Kinopanorama

Kinopanorama is a three-lens, three-film widescreen film format.

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Kinoton

Kinoton GmbH was a German manufacturer of digital projection equipment, conventional film equipment, studio systems, and 360° LED display systems.

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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.

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Kismet (1930 film)

Kismet is a 1930 American pre-Code costume drama film photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope.

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Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography.

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Krugovaya Kinopanorama

The Krugovaya Kinopanorama or Circular Kinopanorama (Круговая кинопанорама) - is a cinema in Moscow of Russia which plays Krugorama, a type of cinema presentation in which film is projected on a circular screen with a horizontal 360° view.

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Lee de Forest

Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio", and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures.

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List of anamorphic format trade names

There have been a great number of anamorphic format trade names, for reasons of prestige, technology, or vanity.

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List of color film systems

This is a list of color film processes known to have been created for photographing and exhibiting motion pictures in color since the first attempts were made in the late 1890s.

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List of film sound systems

The following is a list of film sound systems.

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Louis Le Prince

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion picture camera, possibly being the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.

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Max Skladanowsky

Max Skladanowsky (April 30, 1863 – November 30, 1939) was a German inventor and early filmmaker.

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Maxivision

Maxivision 24 and Maxivision 48 are 35 mm film motion picture film formats.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Mike Todd

Michael "Mike" Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, June 22, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Monkeyshines

Monkeyshines (1889 or 1890) were a series of experimental short silent films made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope, are believed to be the first films shot in the United States.

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Movie projector

A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen.

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Movietone sound system

The Movietone sound system is an optical sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures that guarantees synchronization between sound and picture.

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

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Napoléon (1927 film)

Napoléon is a 1927 silent French epic film written, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon's early years.

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Negative pulldown

Negative pulldown is the manner in which an image is exposed on a film stock, described in the number of film perforations spanned by an individual frame.

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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York.

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Odeon Marble Arch

The Odeon Marble Arch (known as the Regal 1928–1945) was a cinema located opposite Marble Arch monument at the top of Park Lane, with its main entrance on Edgware Road, London.

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Oklahoma! (1955 film)

Oklahoma! is a 1955 musical film based on the 1943 stage musical Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers, and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore and Eddie Albert.

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Old Ironsides (film)

Old Ironsides (1926) is a silent film starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.

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Panavision

Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Pathé

Pathé or Pathé Frères (styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896.

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Persistence of vision

Persistence of vision refers to the optical illusion that occurs when visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light proceeding from it have ceased to enter the eye.

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Phonofilm

Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the 1920s.

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Photochemistry

Photochemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light.

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Polaroid Corporation

Polaroid is an American company that is a brand licensor and marketer of its portfolio of consumer electronics to companies that distribute consumer electronics and eyewear.

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Polavision

Polavision was an "instant" color home movie system launched by Polaroid in 1977.

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Polyvision

Polyvision was the name given by the French film critic Émile Vuillermoz to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon.

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Raintree County (film)

Raintree County is a 1957 American Technicolor melodramatic film set during the American Civil War, directed by Edward Dmytryk.

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Raoul Grimoin-Sanson

Raoul Grimoin-Sanson (1860–1941) was an inventor in the field of early cinema.

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Roundhay Garden Scene

Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent actuality film recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince.

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Run for the Sun

Run for the Sun is a 1956 Technicolor thriller adventure film released by United Artists, the third film to officially be based on Richard Connell's classic suspense story, "The Most Dangerous Game", after both RKO's The Most Dangerous Game (1932), and their remake, A Game of Death (1945).

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Rune Ericson

Rune Ericson (29 May 1924 – 4 February 2015) was a Swedish cinematographer.

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Shane (film)

Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film from Paramount Pictures,Variety film review; April 15, 1953, page 6.

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Showscan

Showscan is a cinematic process developed by Douglas Trumbull.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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SimEx-Iwerks

SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment specializes in high-tech entertainment systems, films, film technologies, film-based software, Simulation Hardware Systems and services around the world.

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Single-8

Single-8 is a motion picture film format introduced by Fujifilm of Japan in 1965 as an alternative to the Kodak Super 8 format.

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Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault.

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (rarely), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association, of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the media and entertainment industry.

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South Pacific (1958 film)

South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn based on James A. Michener's short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific.

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by German director F. W. Murnau and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston.

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Super 35

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 analog sound track.

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Tango (1998 film)

Tango (Tango, no me dejes nunca) is a 1998 Argentine-Spanish musical drama tango film written and directed by Carlos Saura and starring Miguel Ángel Solá and Mía Maestro.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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Technirama

Technirama is a screen process that has been used by some film production houses as an alternative to CinemaScope.

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Techniscope

Techniscope or 2-perf is a 35 mm motion picture camera film format introduced by Technicolor Italia in 1960.

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The Bible: In the Beginning...

The Bible: In the Beginning... is a 1966 American-Italian religious epic film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston.

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The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight

The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight is an 1897 documentary film directed by Enoch J. Rector depicting a boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick's Day the same year.

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The Female Animal

The Female Animal is a 1958 American CinemaScope film noir drama film directed by Harry Keller and starring Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling and George Nader.

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The King and I (1956 film)

The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.

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The Monte Carlo Story

The Monte Carlo Story is a 1956 Italian comedy-drama film production made by Titanus and distributed by United Artists.

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The Pharaohs' Woman

The Pharaohs' Woman (La donna dei faraoni) is a 1960 historical drama film directed by Victor Tourjansky and starring John Drew Barrymore.

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The Robe (film)

The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that is responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus.

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The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Theodore Case

Theodore Willard Case (December 12, 1888 – May 13, 1944) was an American chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system.

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This Is Cinerama

This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer's peripheral vision is involved.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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Thunder Bay (film)

Thunder Bay is a 1953 American adventure film distributed by Universal International, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, directed by Anthony Mann, and stars James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, and Dan Duryea.

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Tiger Child

Tiger Child (虎の仔 Tora no ko) was the first IMAX movie ever made.

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Todd-AO

Todd-AO is an American post-production company founded in 1953, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries.

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Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.

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Tri-Ergon

The Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system was developed from around 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl (1893–1942), Joseph Massolle (1889–1957), and Hans Vogt (1890–1979).

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Ultra Panavision 70

Ultra Panavision 70 and MGM Camera 65 were, from 1957 to 1966, the marketing brands that identified motion pictures photographed with Panavision's anamorphic movie camera lenses.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Univisium

Univisium (macaronic Latin for "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 2:1 (18:9).

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Vera Cruz (film)

Vera Cruz is a 1954 American Western theatrical film starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, and featuring Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Jack Elam.

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Veriscope

Veriscope was an early film studio which produced The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), directed by Enoch J. Rector.

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Victor Animatograph Corporation

The Victor Animatograph Corporation was a maker of projection equipment founded in 1910 in Davenport, Iowa by Swedish-born American inventor Alexander F. Victor.

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VistaVision

VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

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Vittorio Storaro

Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940) is an Italian cinematographer widely recognized for his work on numerous classic films including Apocalypse Now, The Conformist, and The Last Emperor.

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Waller Gunnery Trainer

The Waller Gunnery Trainer was a simulator for training World War II aerial gunners using multiple film projectors.

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White Christmas (film)

White Christmas is a 1954 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen.

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Widescreen

Widescreen images are images that are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) that is used in film, television and computer screens.

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William Friese-Greene

William Friese-Greene (born William Edward Green, 7 September 1855 – 5 May 1921) was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer.

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William Heise

William Heise (1847–1910) was an American film cinematographer and director, active in the 1890s and credited for more than 175 short silent films.

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William Kennedy Dickson

William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).

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William Wardell

William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) was a civil engineer and architect, notable not only for his work in Australia, the country to which he emigrated in 1858, but for a successful career as a surveyor and ecclesiastical architect in England and Scotland before his departure. In Australia, Wardell designed many public buildings. Most notable were St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne; Government House, Melbourne; St John's College, University of Sydney and St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. He worked in both the Gothic and classical styles. Wardell not only constructed major works in the public sector, he also maintained a large private practice building houses and business premises for private individuals. He was Inspector-General of Public Works and Building, for the Colony of Victoria, from 1861 until 1878. As an architect he is often compared with his friend and English counterpart Augustus Pugin, with the vast majority of his buildings completed in the Gothic Revival architectural style.

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Windjammer (1958 film)

Windjammer is a 1958 documentary film that recorded a voyage of the Norwegian sail training ship Christian Radich.

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Wonderama

Wonderama is a children's television program that originally appeared on the Metromedia-owned stations from 1955 to 1977.

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Woodville Latham

Major Woodville Latham (1837–1911) was an ordnance officer of the Confederacy during the American Civil War and professor of chemistry at West Virginia University.

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Wordsworth Donisthorpe

Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Leeds, 24 March 1847 – Shottermill, 30 January 1914) was an English individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast.

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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon), also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière.

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You're in the Army Now

You're in the Army Now is a 1941 comedy film starring Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman, and Regis Toomey.

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16 mm film

16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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28 mm film

28 mm film was introduced by the Pathé Film Company in 1912 under the name Pathé Kok.

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3D film

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional sangu, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension.

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70 mm film

70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge for motion picture photography, with higher resolution than the standard 35 mm motion picture film format.

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70 mm Grandeur film

70 mm Grandeur film, also called Fox Grandeur or Grandeur 70, is a 70mm widescreen film format developed by Fox Film Corporation and used commercially on a small scale in 1929–31.

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8 mm film

8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the film strip is eight millimeters wide.

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9.5 mm film

9.5 mm film is an amateur film format introduced by Pathé Frères in 1922 as part of the Pathé Baby amateur film system.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motion_picture_film_formats

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