MGM Camera 65
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MGM Camera 65 is a wide-screen film format developed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the
1950s, as a single-strip substitute for
Cinerama. It used 65 mm film stock and a special anamorphic lens developed by
Panavision, which imparted a slight horizontal squeeze by a factor of 1.25x. This yielded an
aspect ratio of approximately 2.76:1, which was considerably wider than three-strip
Cinerama. It was only used on less than a dozen films due to the extremely large and heavy cameras and its unusually wide aspect ratio, which was incompatible with most theaters. 35 mm anamorphic prints made from Camera 65 negatives were usually letterboxed at 2.55:1. On non-MGM productions, the system was known as "
Ultra Panavision 70".
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