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Which process truly began the 1950s widescreen era: Cinerama or CinemaScope?

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Cinerama's three-projector This Is Cinerama opened in New York on 30 September 1952, a full year before Twentieth Century Fox brought CinemaScope to market with The Robe. Some historians therefore date the widescreen era to Cinerama's debut. Others credit CinemaScope, because its single-camera, single-projector design was the version ordinary theaters could actually install, and it is the one every other studio licensed within a year; Cinerama remained a novelty shown in a handful of specially built houses. Neither claim is wrong on its own terms; they answer different questions about what "began" an era means. 1
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Not an empirical question; a field-wide convention on whether priority means first public exhibition or first format to reshape the industry at scale would settle which claim the atlas itself should lead with. 1
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Cinerama's three-projector This Is Cinerama opened in New York on 30 September 1952, a full year before Twentieth Century Fox brought CinemaScope to market with The Robe. Some historians therefore date the widescreen era to Cinerama's debut. Others credit CinemaScope, because its single-camera, single-projector design was the version ordinary theaters could actually install, and it is the one every other studio licensed within a year; Cinerama remained a novelty shown in a handful of specially built houses. Neither claim is wrong on its own terms; they answer different questions about what "began" an era means.

What would resolve this Not an empirical question; a field-wide convention on whether priority means first public exhibition or first format to reshape the industry at scale would settle which claim the atlas itself should lead with.
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Wikimedia FoundationCinerama, History section; CinemaScope, Origins sectionView the Source
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