CINESCOPE

a reference to CinemaScope, a trademark for a system of filming and projecting motion pictures that employed special lenses and a wide screen. Introduced in the early 1950s, CinemaScope consisted of a camera fitted with a special lens that took a wide picture and condensed it ("squeezed" it) so that it fit onto a standard size of motion picture film. When the final film was presented to an audience, a special lens on the projector expanded the picture back to the correct proportions so it could be viewed on a wide, slightly curved screen.a shortening of CinemaScope, a film-making process in which a motion picture is projected on a screen, with the width of the image two and a half times its height.