List of anamorphic format trade names
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There have been a great number of anamorphic format trade names, for reasons of prestige, technology, or vanity. The basic 35 mm anamorphic format
Anamorphic format
Anamorphic format is a term that can be used either for: the cinematography technique of capturing a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film, or other visual recording media, with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio; or a photographic projection format in which the original image requires an...

 originally popularized as CinemaScope
CinemaScope
CinemaScope was an anamorphic lens series used for shooting wide screen movies from 1953 to 1967. Its creation in 1953, by the president of 20th Century-Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection.The anamorphic lenses theoretically...

 has by known by a number of other monikers. In some cases, these names actual refer to different lens designs and technologies implemented; however, the great majority are simply re-branded lenses originally known by another name. In recent decades, it has generally been considered a cliché throwback, and thus the generic name of anamorphic format has become predominant. All of the following trade names refer to the modern SMPTE-standard anamorphic 35 mm format or what was regarded as the contemporary standard at that time. Generically speaking, this means a 2x anamorphosis lens with 4-perf negative pulldown
Negative pulldown
Negative pulldown is the manner in which an image is exposed on a film stock, described in the number of film perforations spanned by an individual frame. It can also describe the orientation of the image on the negative, whether it is captured horizontally or vertically...

 for both image origination and projection, and an aspect ratio
Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of the width of the image to its height, expressed as two numbers separated by a colon. That is, for an x:y aspect ratio, no matter how big or small the image is, if the width is divided into x units of equal length and the height is measured using this...

 of 2.35:1 until 1970 and 2.39:1 after 1970. The term anamorphic should not be considered synonymous with Widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....

; VistaVision
VistaVision
VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954....

 was non-anamorphic, and at the time of shooting, so was Techniscope
Techniscope
Techniscope or 2-Perf is a 35mm motion picture camera film format introduced by Technicolor Italia in 1963. The Techniscope format uses a two film-perforation negative pulldown per frame, instead of the standard four-perforation frame usually exposed in 35mm film photography...

.

Trade names

  • AgaScope (Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Hungary)
  • Alexcope aka AlexScope (Argentina)
  • ArriScope (Germany; developed by Arri
    Arri
    -History:Arri was founded in Munich, Germany as Arnold & Richter Cine Technik in 1917, named after founders August Arnold and Robert Richter. They produce professional motion picture equipment, digital and film cameras and cinematic lighting equipment...

    )
  • ArriVision (Germany; 3-D)
  • Cinepanoramic (France)
  • CinemaScope
    CinemaScope
    CinemaScope was an anamorphic lens series used for shooting wide screen movies from 1953 to 1967. Its creation in 1953, by the president of 20th Century-Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection.The anamorphic lenses theoretically...

     (USA/France; early titles were 2.66:1 and 2.55:1 before standardization)
  • Cinescope (Italy)
  • Clairmont-Scope (USA)
  • Colorscope (Italy; inconsistent usage across different formats, including anamorphic)
  • Daieiscope (Japan)
  • Dyaliscope (France)
  • Euroscope
  • Franscope (France and Czechoslovakia until 1959)
  • Grandscope (Japan)
  • Hammerscope (England)
  • J-D-C Scope (England; developed by Joe Dunton)
  • Megascope (England)
  • Naturama
    Naturama
    -Films produced in Naturama format:*Maverick Queen *Lisbon *Accused of Murder *Affair in Reno *Duel at Apache Wells *Hell's Crossroads...

  • Nikkatsu Scope (Japan)
  • Panavision
    Panavision
    Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses during the widescreen boom in the 1950s, Panavision expanded its product...

     (US)
  • Panoramic(a) (Italy)
  • Regalscope (US; 20th Century Fox
    20th Century Fox
    Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

    's tradename for CinemaScope when used on black and white films)
  • Scanoscope
  • Shawscope (Hong Kong; Shaw Brothers's tradename for CinemaScope)
  • Sovscope (USSR)
  • Space-Vision (3-D)
  • Spectrascope
  • SuperCinescope (Italy)
  • SuperTotalscope (Italy)
  • Technovision (France)
  • Todd-AO 35 (US)
  • Toeiscope (Japan)
  • TohoScope
    TohoScope
    Toho Scope is an anamorphic lens system developed in the late 1950s by Toho Studios in response to the popularity of CinemaScope. Its technical specifications are identical to those of CinemaScope...

     (Japan)
  • Totalscope (Italy)
  • Totalvision (Italy)
  • Ultrascope (Germany)
  • Vistarama
  • WarnerScope (US; developed by Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

    )
  • Warwickscope (England)
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