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Re: [OM] 35mm Film Format

Subject: Re: [OM] 35mm Film Format
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:21:16 +0000
At 20:28 1/17/00 , Morgan wrote:
>I thought VistaVision had an aspect ratio of 2:1, not 3:2.  Very similar
>to CinemaScope and Cinerama.

They're all different.  Detailed info about cine film widths and their
aspect ratios can be found here:
  http://www.comp.brad.ac.uk/research/GIP/film.html

In the left "frame" click on the first icon under "directories."  Read the
footnotes to decipher the film format codes!  There is extensive history
about several of them.

-- John

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