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Regent Theatre 191 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC – It’s 1953 and Hoyts go big screen with the installation of CinemaScope

CinemaScope - How does it work ?

CinemaScope is a cinematographic process in which special lenses are used to compress a wide image into a standard frame and then expand it again during projection. It results in an image that is almost two and a half times as wide as it is high.

French physicist Henri Chrétien (1879–1956) invented the technique in the late 1920s by which a camera, with the addition of a special lens, can “squeeze” a wide picture onto standard 35-millimetre film. Then, by the use of a special projection lens, the image is restored to clarity and expanded onto a wide screen without distorting the proportions.

“The Robe” in CinemaScope

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation acquired the rights to CinemaScope and used it in the 1953 production of “The Robe” . The soundtrack utilized a four-track magnetic stereophonic sound system to enhance the new spectacular wide screen format – Contributed by Greg Lynch –