1950s


1950

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1952

This is Cinerama, the first film screened using the Cinerama process: shot with three synchronized cameras and screened with three synchronized projectors onto a huge deeply-curved screen.

Screening of the first feature-length 3D film: Bwana, devil, by Arch Oboler.

1953

Over the next few years, new systems of Scope cinema would appear, such as Warnerscope, Dyaliscope, Naturama, Technirama, Techniscope, Panoramic.

The Robe, the first film shot in CinemaScope.

1954

White Christmas, by Michael Curtiz, the first film produced and released in VistaVision (Paramount), a high-resolution image on a giant screen.

1955

Use of the Todd-AO widescreen film format (65-70mm), in the film Oklahoma, by Fred Zinnemann.