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Thank you, Mr. Harris. I can now purchase the Kiss Me Kate DVD with a clear conscience and retire my "wide screen" laser disc. Though I'm sure there are some who will never be convinced that this is not some dastardly Warners plot, your expertise in the area makes it the final word for me.

With all due respect, Mr. Kline, it was the massive success of The Robe that ushered in the wide screen era as we know it today. This Is Cinerama was more of a "novelty" and it was a good ten years before a narrative dramatic film was shot in the Cinerama process before the process faded away...

The Robe, the film that ushered in the "wide screen" era opened in September 1953. Kiss Me Kate opened in November 1953, just two months later, making it extremely unlikely that it was ever intended to be seen wide screen since the filming of Kiss Me Kate was over by the time of The Robe's...