Age of Widescreen

By the 1970’s, all other cinemas ran 1:1.85 or smaller. The Hiland ran 1:2.00. I just found a notation I had made circa 1977, indicating that the Coronado 4 ran 1:2.00, though that does not match my unreliable memory. The Far North ran undercut 1:2.00 for spherical and .630"×.630" for anamorphic. Larger apertures and longer lenses were no longer part of the conversation. As for me, conversations were impossible, because nobody ever knew what in the bloody heck I was talking about. Difficult to make friends that way. Impossible, really.

This is the shortest chapter because I have no info at all. I would love to get a full accounting of which cinemas had which equipment and when. As I say, though, when I quizzed the technicians back in the 1970’s, they didn’t know. All they knew were the current set-ups. The past was a foreign land that they had never visited and did not care to learn about.