The Widescreen Wars
The 1950s was a tumultuous time for film, the industry was forced to restructure and decade saw the rise of Film’s little brother – Television. Since everybody alive at that time had been going to theaters and watching films in 4×3 aspect ratio- it was only natural that television would carry over that same screen shape. Like a new sibling in the Entertainment family, TV was getting all the attention and that reflected in smaller movie going audiences.How could film get butts back into sets? By offering something they couldn’t get at home.
On September 30, 1952, a film premiered that sparked off a decade long war for widescreen film formats and the result would be a new cinema aesthetic.
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