a wide-screen film process, introduced in the 1950s by American movie studio, Paramount. VistaVision utilized special cameras and projectors to create a large image on the theater screen that retained the color and clarity of a smaller screen. The first VistaVision film was shown in 1954 and several others followed, but with the development of simpler wide-screen systems, VistaVision went out of use in the 1960s.a motionpictureprocessdeveloped in the 1950s that retained the color and imageclarity of a smaller screen on a bigger and wider screen. This was an important development in the transition from small-screen to wide-screenmotion-picture presentation.