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单词 cinemascope
释义

CinemaScopen.

Brit. /ˈsɪnᵻməskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈsɪnəməˌskoʊp/
Forms: 1900s– CinemaScope, 1900s– Cinemascope, 1900s– cinemascope.
Etymology: < cinema n. + -scope comb. form.
Now historical.
1. A system for filming television programmes with a level of image quality comparable to that of cinematic film, developed in 1949 by the Los Angeles television station KLAC-TV. Now rare.The rights to the name were later sold to Twentieth Century Fox, who subsequently applied it to the system described in sense 2.
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1949 Billboard 23 July 8/4 KLAC-TV will unveil its new tele recording system, Cinema-Scope at a trade showing within two weeks.
1949 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 4/5 They used Cinemascope, a great improvement over the current Kinescope.
2. A system used for producing widescreen motion pictures, in which images are recorded using cameras equipped with anamorphic (anamorphic adj. 1b) lenses and projected on to a wider than usual screen. Cf. widescreen n. 1.A proprietary name.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special techniques > [noun]
hold1918
slow motion1924
colourization1926
pixilation1947
Cinerama1950
memomotion1950
CinemaScope1953
Todd-AO1953
Vistavision1954
Panavision1955
Smell-O-Vision1958
kinescoping1961
blue screen1965
shaky camera1967
Imax1969
slo-mo1969
Omnimax1973
Sensurround1974
Pixelvision1987
shaky cam1988
1953 Los Angeles Times 2 Feb. a1/4 The 20th Century Fox leaders described Cinemascope as a device..to permit filming in colour and projection on a screen two and one-half times the ordinary size.
1953 Economist 3 Oct. One of the major film companies has released the first film made in CinemaScope, ‘The Robe’.
1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) ii. v. 91 A grassy slope we'd dubbed ‘Julie Andrews's Meadow’ because its blues and greens looked like something done in CinemaScope.
2014 M. Pomerance in S. Sanders et al. Philos. Michael Mann 119 Shot at Twentieth Century-Fox in color and CinemaScope, this film proved at the time a more than remarkable achievement in special effects.

Derivatives

ˌCinemaˈscopic adj. now rare produced using Cinemascope (sense 2); (also figurative) sweeping, grandly cinematic; cf. widescreen adj. 2.
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1953 Life 9 Mar. 34 (caption) Cinemascopic scope is shown by this picture taken by a Life photographer with a wide-angle lens to approximate the effect the device will give.
1971 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 29 Oct. 12/3 The cemetery conference has planned a cinemascopic spectacular in full color.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Oct. v. 14/2 It offered a Cinemascopic view of the Isles Sanguinaires, the island chain that steps out from the coast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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