Sentences with phrase «fox cinemascope»

This edition is authored in BD - J with AVEC (MPEG 4) compression on a dual - layer 50 GB disc, and presented in the Fox CinemaScope widescreen format.

Meanwhile, the attendant Dolby Surround audio is maddeningly directional in typical Fox CinemaScope fashion, though it has a nice, warm timbre and decent dynamic range.

Not exact matches

More important in that department is the debut of a CinemaScope visual style, which cinematographer Leon Shamroy anchors through often hauntingly precise coloration and lighting, in addition to a tight scope which is intimate and grand enough to immerse you into George Davis» and Lyle R. Wheeler's Oscar - winning art direction, which is immersive enough by its own right, utilizing Paul S. Fox's and Walter M. Scott's impeccable set decoration and Charles LeMaire's and Emile Santiago's costume designs to restore the look of Ancient Rome - from its high society to simple villages - lavishly.

Starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, Fox's hugely popular hit was the first comedy to be shot in CinemaScope and the second film ever to use this format.

Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century - Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right.

THE DVDs Fox presents A Farewell to Arms and Francis of Assisi on DVD in glorious 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfers (the latter misidentified on the box art as 1.85:1) that preserve their CinemaScope origins and, more, honour them with popping the colours and by saturating the screen with the curious sterility of the process.

Established in 1889, the standard format of 35 mm film with an image aspect ratio of 1.33:1 was not seriously challenged until Twentieth Century Fox's invention of CinemaScope (initially 2.55:1, later 2.35:1) in the early 1950s.

This is Fleischer's first film for Fox and he meets the house CinemaScope style — handsome, roomy sets, strong color, open spaces and long, fluid takes (the better to drink in the widescreen images)-- with careful staging and frames filled with little dramas, but he also puts an edge to the stories that play out in the glossy spaces.

Fox's intransigence simply pushed U.K. producers to use various CinemaScope clones that, combined with black - and - white film, achieved a mix of novelty and economy.

Fox tried to encourage the diffusion of CinemaScope by making the use of its Bausch and Lomb lenses free for short films, but its policy of mandating the use of colour was poorly suited to the U.K. industry that mainly made black - and - white films including intimate dramas that were (at least initially) considered poorly suited to widescreen.

This is another Fox production in CinemaScope, directed by Henry Koster, the man behind the camera for other Fox Scope productions such as «The Robe,» «Desiree,» and, God bless him and Debra Paget, «Stars and Stripes Forever.»

Other decent bonuses on the DVD include a behind - the - scenes Still Gallery, Advertising Gallery, 4 postcard still / lobby card reproductions, and a short featurettes that briefly chronicles Tyrone Power's appearances in various swashbuckling actioners, with clips from a number of films extant on DVD, and a few likely on the horizon (like the CinemaScope epic King of the Kyber Rifles), plus comments from the son of director John Cromwell — actor James Cromwell (the benevolent father figure in Babe, and Jack Bauer's monster dad in Season 6 of Fox» TV series 24).