What are some of the popular widescreen film formats?
Excerpted from Wide Screen Film Processes, compiled by David Uy. This section contains technical information on many of the common photographic processes used to make wide-screen, wide-frame and wide- gauge films. The material in this section does not mention the laserdisc medium directly. This is because the definition of aspect ratio, with respect to this section, is in terms of the original source material; in this case photographic film. Understand that the original aspect ratio cannot be determined accurately either from a video source or from a theatrical projection because either can be improperly cropped. A) 35mm format spherical aspect ratios B) 35mm/55mm anamorphic formats C) 70mm Formats D) Bibliography ======================================================================== A) 35mm format spherical aspect ratios ======================================================================== Standard aspect ratio: 1.33:1 (Academy Aperture) Eastern Block, Middle East, Far East stand
