# Cinemascope

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinemascope/98117>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 13, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinemascope/98117 "2002-03-13T20:42:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinemascope/98117/1 "2002-03-13T20:42:10Z")

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Don’t Know whether this question belongs here or in GQ…

Anyway, what is the last movie shot in Cinemascope?

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinemascope/98117/2 "2002-03-14T23:24:42Z")

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I want to say _2001: A Space Odyssey_ but I’d need some time to check.

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinemascope/98117/3 "2002-03-14T23:31:36Z")

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Wait, do you mean CinemaScope or Cinerama? I’m pretty sure CinemaScope is still used. (CinemaScope and Panavison are collectively known as “scope” in the film exhibition industry. They both refer to a process of compressing the image on film then showing it through an amorphic lens to stretch it out again.)

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinemascope/98117/4 "2002-03-15T03:03:17Z")

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And if Cinerama is in fact what you mean (i.e. the system with three cameras and three projectors on a curved screen), the last film using that process was[_The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0056700).

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinemascope/98117/5 "2002-03-15T05:32:40Z")

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There are actually 2 types of Cinerama. The original is a process of filming with three separate cameras and running the films through three projectors. The second type is 70mm Cinerama which is filmed with 70mm film and an amorphic lens so the image will fit a curved Cinerama screen. The last of the first was _Brothers Grimm_ or _How the West Was Won_ - both 1962 (Unless you count the travelogue _Cinerama’s Russian Adventure_ - 1966) and the last of the last was _Song of Norway_ - 1970, which beats _2001_ by 2 years.

[http://cinerama.topcities.com/](http://cinerama.topcities.com/)  
[http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/cine08.shtml](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/cine08.shtml)