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Large-screen image reproduction - Special film formats

Author: Valérie PESEUX

Publication date: February 10, 2003, Review date: January 1, 2024 | Lire en français

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    Throughout the evolution of traditional cinema, the aesthetic and technical resources of the tool have been explored by inventors, filmmakers and promoters to create new forms of expression and sensational new spectacles. Alongside the innovations of traditional cinema (the sound and color revolutions, and the advent of magnetic and digital media), numerous inventions and spectacular innovations have punctuated history. These various formats and processes, which we have called special formats, are as follows.

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    not to be confused with "special effects", a generic term encompassing all image manipulation – mechanical, optical, electronic, digital – and sound.

    • Wide formats: these are characterized by all film widths greater than the standard 35 mm format (see...

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