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Author Topic: Henri Chretien's Hypergonar Lenses Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 03-18-2003 09:14 AM                     This year sometime, October, I think, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the indroduction of CinemaScope. Chretien's Hypergonar lenses are the basis of all the anamorphic lenses in use today. If you're still pissed at the French you'd better throw them all out.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-18-2003 09:29 AM                        CinemaScope links: http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingcs1.htm http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/cinemascopespecs.htm http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/squeeze.htm http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/cinemascoperef.htm  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-18-2003 12:03 PM                        Excellent point, Bill Do you suppose Twentieth Century Fox had a crystal ball and was able to see into the future and knew we were going to be pissed with the French enough fifty years later to change foods with the word "French" with "Freedom"? I can imagine Darryl F. Zanuck doing his very patriotic duty by calling the new widescreen process CinemaScope instead of ChretienScope. In view of the way some conservative Americans feel about the French today, they should have called the new film process FreedomScope! Gee, that sounds nice! -Claude  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-18-2003 02:16 PM                     Presented in FreedomScope... Isn't CINEMA a French word?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-18-2003 04:08 PM                       Good one, Mitchell! Ah, I'd be willing to throw out anamorphic for the Grandeur process (which nixed Chretien's original pitch for the lens in the late 20s/early 30s).  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-18-2003 05:51 PM                        Cinema comes from the Greek word "kinisi" (motion) probbly through the Frenach transliteration in "cinematographe", from Greek "kinematographos" (motion recorder). I explained this in stunning linguistic detail in another of my very fascinating posts, but I don`t remember where it was. Somehow the search machine doesn`t seem to be very effective.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-18-2003 06:06 PM                     Michael Look at thread called "Pronounciation of Cinemeccanica" in Yak. Its the 11th post on that page. Bill  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-18-2003 06:10 PM                        Indeed. Obviously I am not clever enough to operate the search machine. Well, you can`t be a genius in all fields.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-18-2003 06:36 PM                       But, your posts are very fascinating and brilliant, nonetheless.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-18-2003 08:22 PM                        At the very least.  |  IP: Logged

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