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CinemaScope was an anamorphic lens series used from 1953 to 1967 for shooting widescreen movies created by the president of 20th Century Fox from 1953, and marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection. The anamorphic lenses theoretically allowed the process to create an image of up to a 2.66:1 aspect ratio, almost twice as wide as the previously ubiquitous Academy format's 1.37:1 ratio. Although the CinemaScope lens system was quickly made obsolete by new technological developments primarily advanced by Panavision, the anamorphic format initiated by CinemaScope for both the shooting and presentation of films has continued to this day. In film-industry jargon, the shortened form, 'Scope, is still widely used by both filmmakers and p

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