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3 unusual facts about Robert Gottschalk


Robert Gottschalk

In 1953, the CinemaScope process, based on Chrétien's patents, was purchased and named by 20th Century Fox.

His first award was a Special Technical Oscar, awarded in 1960 for the development of the MGM Camera 65 widescreen photographic system.

Ultra Panavision 70

So in 1954 Douglas Shearer, Director of Recording at MGM, approached Robert Gottschalk, president of Panavision, with a proposal for the development of a new widescreen photographic system.



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