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- …1953 Koster directed the groundbreaking The Robe, the first feature film made in CinemaScope.
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The film was released by 20th Century Fox and was the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope. [4] Like other early CinemaScope films, The Robe was shot with Henri Chrétien's original Hypergonar anamorphic lenses. The film was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Frank Ross.
Mar 27, 2009 · Based on a 1942 novel by the popular inspirational writer Lloyd C. Douglas (“Magnificent Obsession”), “The Robe” is the story of Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton, in his first important...
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- Violent Saturday (1955) Director: Richard Fleischer. Everyone has something to hide in Richard Fleischer’s simmering study of smalltown America, which was adapted by Sydney Boehm from a William L. Heath story that originally appeared in Cosmopolitan.
- Lady and the Tramp (1955) Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. Walt Disney was among the first to licence CinemaScope from Fox and he experimented with it on the Oscar-winning cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953) before hiring Richard Fleischer to use the format in adapting Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954) as the studio’s fifth live-action adventure.
- It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) Directors: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Having danced ‘dream ballets’ in Vincente Minnelli’s An American in Paris (1951) and Singin’ in the Rain (1952), which he co-directed with Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly decided to showcase his contention that dancing was a man’s game in his sole excursion in CinemaScope.
- Lola Montès (1955) Director: Max Ophüls. Very loosely based on a novel by Cécil Saint-Laurent, Max Ophüls’ swan song was his only picture in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope.
Fox selected The Robe as the first film to start production in CinemaScope, a project chosen because of its epic nature. During its production, How to Marry a Millionaire and Beneath the 12-Mile Reef also went into CinemaScope production.
Sep 16, 2013 · (Wednesday, September 16, 1953) — The Robe, a Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus and the first movie presented in the widescreen process CinemaScope, had its world premiere today at the Roxy Theater in New York.
Aug 25, 2024 · The Robe was shown in Cinemascope at the time, the first film to exhibit in cinemascope. The Robe is a revelation. It shows the conversion of a Roman tribune to Christ which bursts on the screen like an epiphany of joy. It warms the cockles of your heart.
According to Hollywood Reporter news items, The Robe was also shot in regular 35mm, but only so that it could be reduced to 16mm for release to churches and schools. During its general theatrical release, The Robe was available only in CinemaScope.
