History Main / WideScreenShot

Compare {{Letterbox}}, Open Matte, VisualCompression (all three are ways to try to fit widescreen into normal ratio), UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie, ShootTheMoney. The audio equivalent of this is GratuitousPanning.

Although landscapes are still some of the most common forms of widescreen showing shots, others include people far apart from each other or showing a huge crowd of people.

Film studios also marketed their respective widescreen formats in the early days (since they each used tech that could be patented), even if most were essentially the same result (a wider camera and screen), except for [[Film/{{Napoleon}} Polyvision]] and Cinerama (both of which utilized three synchronized projectors, the latter also using a deeply curved screen).

* The 2013 MickeyMouse short ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' begins with a small 1.33:1 screen showing a black-and-white cartoon. Once Mickey bursts through the screen into color, the lights turn on to reveal that the theater's stage in 2.35:1 ratio. In addition, Mickey pulls back the stage curtains, turning the 1.33:1 theater screen (with rounded corners) into a 16:9 screen (with sharp edges).

* Two Oscar-winning movie musicals that Creator/RobertWise directed, ''Film/WestSideStory'' and ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', begin with aerial pans across the landscape of the respective movie's setting (either [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Manhattan]] or UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}).

Compare {{Letterbox}}, Open Matte, VisualCompression (all three are ways to try to fit widescreen into normal ratio), UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie, ShootTheMoney.

* Some episodes of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', when remastered for high definition and the 16:9 aspect ratio, reveal the curtain on the left side of the of the bar set, which was not visible when episodes originally aired in 4:3.