<html><head><base href="x-msg://17/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just to clarify: remember that Cinemascope was originally supposed to use magnetic sound and at first had the sound run on a separate strip, which allowed them to use more of the film strip for the image, like with the silent film era. Then you could get 2.66:1. Putting the magnetic strip on the film made it 2.55:1, but exhibitor resistance to having to buy a new sound system led them to abandon the magnetic strip for an optical strip, which took up more space on the film strip, reducing it to 2.35:1, which was the standard for much of the Cinemascope era. Please also check out John Belton's excellent book on widescreen for all the nitty-gritty details.<div><br></div><div>What I would ask Jasper is whether anyone in Japan tried to use the magnetic sound system.<br><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Aaron Gerow<br>Associate Professor<br>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<br>Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program<br>Yale University<br>53 Wall Street, Room 316<br>PO Box 208363<br>New Haven, CT 06520-8363<br>USA<br>Phone: 1-203-432-7082<br>Fax: 1-203-432-6764<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a></div><div>website: <a href="http://www.aarongerow.com">www.aarongerow.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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