Cinépanoramic

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Cinépanoramic was a name introduced in France in 1955 for an anamorphic process for 35 mm wide screen films.

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While CinemaScope quickly caught on with several large American film companies, European producers hesitated. Though the cinema operators were gradually upgrading their movie theaters to the new system, the license fees demanded by 20th Century Fox as the rights holder prevented the use of the CinemaScope brand and its camera technology in a large number of European film productions.

As early as 1953, Ernst Abbe introduced Cinépanoramic, a competing system that could be used to bypass trademark rights. The anamorphic lens system of Cinépanoramic was a direct development of CinemaScope. The film image was compressed by a factor of 2 during the recording and rectified by the same factor during the presentation in order to obtain the desired aspect ratio of 2.35: 1 (see also anamorphic method ). The anamorphic lens required for this on the camera had an additional correction lens to enable close-ups with less distortion than with the CinemaScope optics from 20th Century Fox.

The French DIC also sold the process abroad. In the United States Cinépanoramic was as Naturama and in the UK as Camera Scope known. Only a few films were awarded with the original name Cinépanoramic. Later, under the name Franscope , it was one of the most successful brands for anamorphic widescreen films in France .

Films in cinépanoramic

  • 1955: Mademoiselle de Paris
  • 1955: Street of the Damned ( Le couteau sous la gorge )
  • 1955: The golden falcon ( Il falco d'oro )
  • 1956: Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
  • 1957: Scream of conscience ( Les assassins du dimanche )
  • 1957: Call of the Gods
  • 1960: Toro bravo
  • 1961: Gli scontenti
  • 1961: The Sword of Vengeance ( Capitaine tempête )
  • 1965: The greatest adventures of the Vikings ( Erik, il vichingo )

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