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MGM Camera 65 is a wide-screen film format developed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1950s, as a single-strip substitute for Cinerama. It used 65 mm film stock and a special anamorphic lens developed by Panavision, which imparted a slight horizontal squeeze by a factor of 1.25x. This yielded an aspect ratio of approximately 2.76:1, which was considerably wider than three-strip Cinerama. It was only used on less than a dozen films due to the extremely large and heavy cameras and its unusually wide... full article at wikipedia
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