List of early wide-gauge films
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These early wide film processes employed a number of different frame sizes and perforations per frame.
  • Films made by American Mutoscope and Biograph (US 1895) a) 62 mm, 1.36:1, 6 perf. - b) 2 7/8 inch, 1.19:1
  • Films made by Demeny-Gaumont (France 1895) - Chronophotographe, 60 mm, 1.22:1, 4 perf.
  • Henry Regatta (UK 1896 July) Birt Acres, Barnet, England - Palace Theatre, London, March 17 1897
  • Films made by Biograph (US 1897-1900), 68 mm, 1.375:1, non-perf.
  • The Corbett-Fitzsimmons prizefight - Enoch J. Rector - Veriscope USA 1897, 63 mm, 1.65:1, 5 perf. Prestwich: England late
  • A film for Burton Holmes (UK 1890s) 2 3/8 inch, 1.31:1, 4 perf.
  • Lumière widefilm (France 1900), 75 mm (widest format ever), 1.2:1, 8 perf.
  • Il sacco di Roma
    Il Sacco di Roma
    The Pagans is a 1953 Italian film directed by Ferruccio Cerio...

    (first wide screen feature) (Italy 1923) Enrico Guazzoni, one sequence in Alberini Panoramica/Panoramico Alberini: Italy 1914, Filoteo Alberini, 2.20:1 (2.52:1?), 5 perf., shot with rotating wide angle 65°
  • Widescope (US 1921 /1927?) 57 mm, twin-lens camera, rotating lens; the split film was screened in 2 projectors
  • Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls
    The Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has...

    (US 1923) Essanay, George K Spoor/P John Berggren, short, tinted or toned - Natural Vision = 63 mm (63,5 mm?), 1.73:1, 6 perf., separate 35 mm soundtrack, other screenings in 35 mm Magnascope
  • Tri-Ergon: German company, 42 mm 1924, New York
  • Rollercoaster Ride (US 1926) short - Natural Vision
  • You're in the Army Now
    You're in the Army Now
    You're in the Army Now is a 1941 comedy film starring Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman, and Regis Toomey.It featured the longest kiss in film, lasting three minutes and six seconds until Elena Undone beat it by eighteen seconds.- Cast :...

    (US 1929) July 18 in New York, only screening, Joseph Stanley, 2 reels - Magnafilm/Magnifilm Paramount 1929, Lorenzo del Riccio, 56 mm, 1.85:1 (ca 2.20:1?), 4 perf. (also 35 mm for cropping 1.85:1 with Magnascope)
  • Fox Grandeur News (US 1929 Aug 25) 1 reel - Fox Grandeur = Fox 1929-31, oversized soundtrack, experiment only with Perspecta-type directional sound, 2.13:1, 4 perf., Mitchell-camera (also 35 mm shown in Magnascope)
  • Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
    Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
    Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 was a black-and-white and color American musical film released by Fox Film Corporation.-Preservation status:...

    (US 1929 May 29) David Butler, Marcel Silver, 80 min - Fox Grandeur (also 35 mm with Technicolor sequence)
  • Happy Days
    Happy Days
    Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....

    (US 1930 Febr 13) Benjamin Stoloff, 86 min - Fox Grandeur
  • Niagara Falls (US 1930 Febr 13) 1 reel, from footage for Fox Grandeur News - Fox Grandeur
  • Song o' My Heart (US 1930 March 11) Frank Borzage - Fox Grandeur
  • The Big Trail
    The Big Trail
    The Big Trail is a lavish early widescreen movie shot on location across the American West starring John Wayne in his first leading role and directed by Raoul Walsh....

    (US 1930 Oct 24) Raoul Walsh, 158 min - Fox Grandeur, converted to 35 mm scope in 1985, also German and French 35 mm versions: Die grosse fahrt and La piste des géants (P Couderc)
  • Campus Sweethearts (US 1930 RKO, J Leo Meehan, 27 min, only shown at State Lake, Chicago - Natural Vision (also 35 mm)
  • Danger Lights
    Danger Lights
    Danger Lights is a 1930 film starring Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur.The plot concerns railroading on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, and the movie was largely filmed along that railroad's lines in Montana...

    (US 1930) RKO, George B Seitz, 87 min, (short?) (only shown at State Lake, Chicago?) - Natural Vision (also 35 mm)
  • Fox 50 mm Wide Screen: ca 1930 4 perf, 1.77:1
  • A Soldier's Plaything
    A Soldier's Plaything
    A Soldier's Plaything is a 1930 drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. Warners filmed this simultaneously in 35mm, and in a widescreen process called Vitascope, but it is uncertain whether the Vitascope version was ever released.-Cast:...

    (US 1930) Michael Curtiz, 57 min; - Vitascope = Warner 1931, 65 mm, 2.25:1, 5 perf. separate soundtrack, (also 35 mm released 1931 May 71 min)
  • Song of the Flame (1930) - Vitascope; first color film (in Technicolor
    Technicolor
    Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

    ) to use widescreen.
  • The Lash (1930) - Vitascope; also shot simultaneously in 35 mm
  • The Bat Whispers
    The Bat Whispers
    The Bat Whispers is a mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists.-Plot:A mysterious criminal by the name of "The Bat" eludes police and then finally announces his retirement to the country, while a wealthy Cornelia Van Gorder takes up...

    (1930 Nov 13) Roland West - Magnifilm, exhibited only in 35 mm, miniature and special effects scenes shot in 35 mm and re-photographed in 70 mm
  • Billy the Kid
    Billy the Kid (1930 film)
    Billy the Kid is a 1930 American film directed in widescreen by King Vidor about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett , the man who later killed him.-Cast:...

    (1930 Oct 19) King Vidor - Realife; also shot in 35 mm, which was cropped in some cinemas; exhibited only in 35 mm
  • The Lash/Adios (US 1931) Jan 1, Frank Lloyd, 79 min - Vitascope
  • Kismet
    Kismet
    Kismet may refer to:* Fate or Destiny in Turkish and Hindi-Urdu, a predetermined course of events, from Persian qesmat, from Arabic qisma, lot, from qasama, to divide, allot...

    (US 1931) John Francis Dillon, 87 min, 1 min prolog showed the difference between 35 mm and Vitascope (also 35 mm - also German version by William Dieterle)
  • The Great Meadow
    The Great Meadow
    The Great Meadow is a 1931 sound film adventure produced and distributed by MGM with direction by Charles Brabin. The film starred Eleanor Boardman and Johnny Mack Brown. The story of The Great Meadow written by Elizabeth Madox Roberts is similar in theme to that of Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D...

    (1931 March 15) Charles Barbin - Realife; also filmed in 35 mm, exhibited only in 35 mm

See also

  • List of 70mm films
  • 70 mm film
    70 mm film
    70mm film is a wide high-resolution film gauge, with higher resolution than standard 35mm motion picture film format. As used in camera, the film is wide. For projection, the original 65mm film is printed on film. The additional 5mm are for magnetic strips holding four of the six tracks of sound...

  • 70 mm Grandeur film
    70 mm Grandeur film
    70 mm Grandeur film, also called Fox Grandeur, was a 70mm widescreen film format developed by the Fox Film Corporation and used commercially on a small scale in 1929-1931. It is technically very similar to the Todd-AO 70mm system, marketed from 1955 and still in limited use today...

  • List of film formats
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