Word: wide-screen
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Meanwhile, the counter-counter-revolutionaries hatched a plot to have their cake, eat it too, and pinch a few of Skouras' box-office cookies into the bargain. Each announced, in portentous succession, that after years of arduous research it had developed at last its own wide-screen system-with "stereophonic sound." Paramount came out with Paravision, to be shown on a screen 1.66 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.66 to 1 for CinemaScope). Metro sedately favored 1.75 to 1, and Universal went...
...nearly in half-34 films in the next 18 months. All will have stereophonic sound, and two will be in Cinemascope, 20th Century-Fox's 3-D system, which M-G-M tentatively considered adapting for its main output. Otherwise, M-G-M will concentrate on its own wide-screen technique (unnamed in either one or two capital letters...
...Director George (Shane) Stevens: "[Wide-screen] is a process ideally suited for high-school commencement photographs...