What is Super 35 mm film?
Super 35 mm uses the same film as regular 35 mm; however, Super 35 utilizes more of the film’s picture area. In reality, Super 35 uses the frame area of the film that movies occupied prior to the advent of sound from sprocket hole to sprocket, top to bottom. When the sound track area was added to film in the late 1920s, the picture had to be narrowed and shortened to maintain the same aspect ratio (frame shape). As a result, a significant portion of the original frame is not used in conventional 35 mm cinematography. In post-production, you can choose in which aspect ratio to release the film. Also, you can manufacture an anamorphic (CINEMASCOPE) release without the film having been shot that way. Most telecine facilities can take advantage of the bigger negative area when transferring to video to produce a sharper picture or to make creative decisions in post-production by cropping and zooming within the film frame area. • What kind of equipment is required to shoot in Super 35 mm for
