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Anamorphic lens

A lens for making widescreen films using regular Academy ratio frame size. The camera lens takes in a wide field of view and squeezes it onto the frame, and a similar projector lens unsqueezes in onto a wide theatre screen. Cinemascope and Panavision are examples of anamorphic widescreen processes.

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