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Theatres WERE equipped for widescreen prior to the release of THE ROBE. The screens weren't Cinemascope size, but the big metropolitan theaters installed larger screens to take advantage of the "widescreen revolution" that Cinemascope would (hopefully) usher in. The spate of poorly cropped...

NO....it was THIS IS CINERAMA and the "filming" of the ROBE that started the widescreen revolution. The industry was abuzz with the prospect of Cinemascope and began composing films for cropped widescreen in early 1953. If IMDB is to be believed, TORCH SONG didn't go into production until June...