a lens for making widescreen films using regular Academy ratio frame size. The camera lens takes in a wide field of view and squeezes it onto the frame, and a similar projector lens unsqueezes in onto a wide theatre screen. CinemaScope and Panavision are examples of anamorphic widescreen processes.

See camera angle

any process whereby artificial movement is created by photographing a series of drawings or computer images one by one.

a production in contrast to the mass production of studio production. A filmmaker, producer, and crew devote their energy to making a single film.

the relationship of the television or film frame's width to its height.