Resources on film stock in Japan

[Frederick Veith]

This is somewhat at a tangent to Japanese cinema, but I wanted to note
that, while not nearly as widespread as in Japan, there were in fact
black and white 'Scope films made in Hollywood. So as not to detract
from the prestige of the CinemaScope label, from 1956-1959 Fox
initially used the name RegalScope for its B productions in black and
white--mostly westerns. They eventually produced black and white films
under the CinemaScope label as well, including Samuel Fuller's Forty
Guns. And there were non-Fox black and white 'Scope productions,
including Douglas Sirk's Tarnished Angels.

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Now, returning to Belton's book, when 20th Century Fox introduced the
> CinemaScope format and were initially selling it to exhibitors in America,
> it was packaged together as a bundle involving the anamorphic lenses for the
> projectors, stereo sound systems, curved screens and colour films. In
> America, CinemaScope wasn't just characterised by its aspect ratio, but the
> widescreen "spectacles" (The Robe, How to Marry A Millionaire etc) were all
> sold equally as being in full colour - I can't think offhand of a Hollywood
> CinemaScope production that was filmed in monochrome, although in Japan
> their were of course plenty (or at least in local variations of CinemaScope,
> such as NikkatsuScope, TohoScope et al).