CinemaScope

[ sin-uh-muh-skohp ]

Movies, Trademark.

1. a wide-screen process using anamorphic lenses in photographing and projecting the film.

CinemaScope

/ ˈsɪnɪməˌskəʊp /

noun

1. an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses

Other Words From

• Cin·e·ma·Scop·ic [sin-, uh, -m, uh, -, skop, -ik], adjective

Example Sentences

“It’s a book about CinemaScope, and a book in CinemaScope,” he says proudly.

From Los Angeles Times

Percival notes that since anamorphic lenses yield a wider, more cinematic aspect ratio than standard television fare, “If you were to take our dailies, they would be in Scope” — CinemaScope, the super-widescreen format.

From Los Angeles Times

Movies were cut for time, pockmarked with commercials; the TV picture was not as sharp as the film image; screens at first were small, and their 3:4 “standard” aspect ratio, while it mirrored movies of the ’30s and ’40s, was unfriendly to Cinemascope and VistaVision and the like.

From Los Angeles Times

As Cole Porter wrote in 1955, “If you want to get the crowds to come around / You gotta have glorious Technicolor, breathtaking Cinemascope / And stereophonic sound.”

From Los Angeles Times

For the finale, Picasso tells Clouzot that he wants to work on something more ambitious, and, after he fusses with the face and coloring of a goat, the film switches to CinemaScope and watches as the painter toys with the facial expressions and abdominal contours of a nude woman, among other sights.

From New York Times