In the early 1950s, Hollywood introduced numerous widescreen formats in an effort to compete with the rise of television; the thinking was that the spectacle of CinemaScope, Cinerama, and other ...
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Why Are Some of the World’s Best Directors Reviving This Special Film Format Created in the 1950s?
The legacy of VistaVision is intertwined with some of the most acclaimed films ever made. The high-resolution film format, developed by Paramount Pictures in the 1950s, is able to create richer and ...
These words, this introduction to a memory, launch Foster Hirsch’s sweeping, winningly eccentric new film history book, “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” a study that manages to be both ...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s eagerly awaited new action thriller One Battle After Another is the latest film shot in the old-school ...
When it opened in 1954, the Lee Highway-Arlington Blvd. Drive In was the first outdoor theater with CinemaScope, or the ability to show wide-screen films. Thousands of county residents would pull ...
We live in an age where so much discourse surrounds the merits of viewing motion pictures in a theatrical setting versus streaming at home. Obviously supercharged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept ...
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