The Anamorphic Standard

When i was growing up, wide screened films on television were very often shown, panned and scanned. But with a two point three, five to one image, that means you're losing almost half of it by doing that. So some places did just crop the image. But some processes used an anamorphic lens. And then there was 70 millimeters, which is taking film which is twice as wide. That was fine until television again screwed things up. They couldn't understand why ben hur wasn't filling the whole of their television screen. To pacify these people, what they would do is basically doom into the middle of the image and then just try and pick the vertical slice that