An advertisement for VISTAVISION a high definition wide scre

An advertisement for VISTAVISION a high definition wide screen system where the film in the camera and in some premiere situations ran horizontally. This exposed a landscape shaped picure eight perforations long, similar in picture size to still camera film. The usual vertically travelling movie film had a smaller picture which needed to be enlarged more on the new 1950s wide screens resulting in quality loss. VISTAVISION was an answer to this

• Product Code
• ILEA000576422

• Registered date
• 2010/2/23 00:00:00

• Credit
• Image courtesy PARAMOUNT PICTURES / Ronald Grant Archive / Mary Evans / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• Copyright (c) Mary Evans Picture Library 2015

• Media size
• 1856 × 1166 pixel

• Resolution
• 400 dpi

• Deployment size
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• Special instruction
• Strictly editorial use only. Credit line mandatory. Book cover use must be cleared with Mary Evans.
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