Martin Bandyke Under Covers for May 2022: Martin interviews Scott Eyman, author of 20th Century Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio
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Cinemoscope, Wide Screen
Youuyou cut shooting schedules as short as possible. When that still didn't work a then you give stuff that the audience can't get on television, a little more sex and violence. And then he get big on sinemoscope, on changing the the screen ratio. He bet big on it, about ten million dollars of fox's money in a space of 18 months or so. The first a cinemoscope film premiered at the end of 19 53, and it was a spectacular success. It basically changed screen dimensions,. A cinemosine cnemoscope, wide screen, as a saviour of the moving industry, did not last very long. They lasted five or six years.
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