wide screen
Adjective Satellite
Meaning
(motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height
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wide-screen
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The film also marked the first time Scorsese used wide-screen Panavision with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
Later career His return to Hollywood film-making in 1967 to make the wide-screen western Custer of the West was another disappointment (it had been a project originally intended for Akira Kurosawa ).
The political satire parodied HUAC and attacked elements of 1950s culture – including consumerism, plastic surgery, and wide-screen cinema.