Chapter 6
The Age of Widescreen
By the 1970’s, all other cinemas ran 1:1.85 or smaller.
The Hiland ran 1:2.00.
I just found a notation I had made circa 1977, indicating that the Coronado 4 ran 1:2.00, though that does not match my unreliable memory.
The Far North ran undercut 1:2.00 for spherical and .630"×.630" for anamorphic.
Larger apertures and longer lenses were no longer part of the conversation.
As for me, conversations were impossible, because nobody ever knew what in the bloody heck I was talking about.
Difficult to make friends that way.
Impossible, really.
This is the shortest chapter because I have no info at all.
I would love to get a full accounting of which cinemas had which equipment and when.
As I say, though, when I quizzed the technicians back in the 1970’s, they didn’t know.
All they knew were the current
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