Superscope

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Super Scope was a 1,954-established film production format to 35mm - widescreen movies to manufacture. The name is protected by trademark law. The company of the same name behind it acquired US sales for Sony in 1957 , and Marantz in 1964 for three million dollars. By 1987 parts of Marantz were sold again, but in 1993 the distribution rights of the professional Marantz division were acquired. Superscope is still active in the audio field to this day.

Film production format background

With Superscope, the Irving and Joseph Tushinsky brothers wanted to ensure that a spherically recorded film could be shown in any cinemascope format. The 2.0: 1 format was chosen because at the time there was no standardized format. The 35-mm - negative film has been fully exposed, the desired 2.0: However, 1-Letterbox only the horizontal center part of the negative was needed, which the cameraman take into account had to, since later fell away a part of the upper and lower edges at the shooting. With the help of the so-called Tushinsky lens, the required image section was compressed in a 2: 1 ratio and copied onto the 35 mm film positive. With an anamorphic lens , the image was rectified in the cinema and brought onto the screen. The first film shot in this format was Western Vera Cruz in 1954 .

One advantage of the system was that it was possible to shoot with simple film equipment with a spherical lens , since the anamorphic 2.00: 1 format was only created in the laboratory. This meant that two different versions were available without any major additional effort. In addition, there were no license fees for the expensive Cinemascope process by the film studio 20th Century Fox . RKO and smaller film studios as well as independent producers took over the system.

However, the 2.00: 1 format could not prevail, because the image quality deteriorated when copying over, and the squeezed square format left a part of the positive film unused, which led to difficulties with playback on an incorrectly adjusted cinema projector. As early as 1956, the Superscope 235 switched to the 2.35: 1 format to make demonstration easier. With the further development of copying technology, the image quality could also be improved. After the end of the RKO, Warner Bros. continued the system under the name Warnerscope for a short time. It was not until 1981 that the format became known again when the Super 35 was used as the Superscope 235.

Movies in Superscope

  • 1954: Vera Cruz ( Vera Cruz )
  • 1955: The Golden Galley ( Underwater! )
  • 1955: Escape to Burma ( Escape to Burma )
  • 1955: Sindbad's son ( Son of Sinbad )
  • 1955: Bengazi
  • 1955: Pirate Bride ( Pearl of the South Pacific )
  • 1955: Fist of Death ( Tennessee's partner )
  • 1955: Yellow Rose of Texas ( The Return of Jack Slade )
  • 1955: Hot breath ( The Treasure of Pancho Villa )
  • 1955: Settlement in Fort Valeau ( Desert Sands )
  • 1955: The Devil's Right Hand ( Texas Lady )
  • 1955: The last seven ( Day the World Ended )
  • 1956: Glory
  • 1956: The Demonic ( Invasion of the Body Snatchers )
  • 1956: Street of Crime ( Slightly Scarlet )
  • 1956: A scrap of life ( The Bold and the Brave )
  • 1956: On the Beach of Sin ( The Come On )
  • 1956: Ruthless ( Great Day in the Morning )
  • 1956: One Shot Faster ( The Oklahoma Woman )
  • 1957: Little man - really big
  • 1957: Life is without mercy ( La grande strada azzurra )
  • 1963: Drylanders
  • 1966: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording (Austin) , accessed August 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ Analogplanet.com of May 31, 2013, Marantz Launches NA-11S1 Reference Class Network Audio Player and USB DAC Section 60 Years of Marantz , accessed August 8, 2020.