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2 unusual facts about widescreen


Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya

All the hostels have good study environments along with dining halls & common rooms featuring carrom boards, table tennis, magazines & newspapers, widescreen LCD TVs etc. for leisure hours.

Venus Wars

1993: Widescreen LaserDisc released by Central Park Media as U.S. Manga Corps


Anamorphic widescreen

MGM: "Enhanced for 16:9 TVs" or "Enhanced for Widescreen TVs;" includes aspect ratio since 2001; uses Fox’s format since 2004.

Bernard Natan

Under Natan, Pathé also funded the research of Henri Chrétien, who developed the anamorphic lens (a technology which later led to the creation of CinemaScope and other widescreen film formats common today).

Christian Radich

The Christian Radich is well known through the international release in 1958 of the Cinemiracle widescreen movie Windjammer.

Dark Command

Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W.R. Burnett, Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appear together, and was the only film Wayne and Raoul Walsh made together since Walsh discovered Wayne working as a prop mover, renamed him, and gave him his first leading role in the widescreen western The Big Trail a decade before.

Walsh was reading a biography of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne at the time and gave the prop boy the last name "Wayne" after casting him as the lead in The Big Trail (1930), a 70 mm Grandeur widescreen epic shot on location all across the West.

Defenseless

There is however, a widescreen unedited DVD of the film that was released in Japan by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, under license from StudioCanal, in 2007.

Diebuster

Also called Gunbuster 2, it is the direct sequel to Gunbuster, but is animated in a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, rather than the 4:3 aspect ratio used in the majority of Gunbuster.

Goliath and the Dragon

La vendetta di Ercole (literally Revenge of Hercules), better known as Goliath and the Dragon, is a 1960 Italian/French international co-production widescreen sword and sandal film starring weight lifter and gymnast Mark Forest in his debut film role and Broderick Crawford.

HDV

The PBS accepts HDV for widescreen programming acquisition and to a limited extent for use in HD programs.

HP TouchSmart

The series featured a 22-inch widescreen touchscreen display, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 500GB disk, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M HS HD graphics, and 802.11n WiFi, along with an Energy Star qualification.

Insex

Starting in 2003, videos were occasionally shot in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio with partly more artistic camera work.

Jay Weston

He also played a prominent role in Cinerama Inc., the company that created the Cinerama widescreen film process.

John Sturges

He made imaginative use of the widescreen CinemaScope format by placing Spencer Tracy alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination in 1955.

KMTW

The outsourcing arrangement expired at the end of 2011, and NBC affiliate KSNW (which is currently the only station in the Wichita/Hutchinson area that still airs its newscasts in enhanced definition widescreen rather than true high definition) took over the production of the KSAS newscasts at that time.

Mark Strand Theatre

After closing for renovation in 1952, the theater reopened as the Warner Cinerama Theatre in 1953 with the widescreen film This Is Cinerama.

Ohtlikud kurvid

These have since been screened at the former New Neon Movies in Dayton, Ohio, USA, the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California, and most recently at the Bradford Widescreen Festival on 19 March 2008.

Polyvision

Polyvision was the name given by the French film critic Émile Vuillermoz to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon.

Robert Gottschalk

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

The Hallelujah Trail

The film was one of several large-scale widescreen, long-form "epic" comedies produced in the 1960s, much like The Great Race or It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, combined with the epic grandeur of the Western genre.

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.

Vince Vouyer

Founded in late 2005, Vouyer Media produced gonzo DVDs shot in widescreen HD.

Widescreen Mode

Widescreen Mode's debut record Until the End was mixed by Anssi Kippo, who has engineered gold albums


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