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The Court Jester is the most well known of those titles and I would have thought it would have seen the light of day on BD by now.! There were even some experiments in the later 50's-early 60's of a 70mm release such was its popularity.

I am sure there were well over 1000 theatres in the U.S by the end of 1953 as The Robe opened in September of that year. The question is really how many stereo installations mid- year. Your websites, Bob, are truly fascinating and a joy to read. Looking at the Wax site, I note a U,S trade ad...

I think your experience Peter would be the same for most of that era. Given that the world (save U.S) was at war when Fantasound made its debut, I think it has been reported that it only saw the light of day in N.Y and L.A. After Pearl Harbour, there was no chance of the sound equipment...

Surely there can be no question that it started with Cinerama . As far as stereo's widespread use is concerned, while there were many experiments with stereo and widescreen as well as 3D in the early 50’s,I would have thought they would have only taken place in one or two of the major cities in...

Interesting point Bob but how wide was the release of Wax in Warnerphonic Sound?

To be frank, I can't see Perspecta as much help to anything compared to "the wonder of 4 track magnetic stereophonic sound", We should remember that the first time most people heard hi fi sound let alone stereo was in a theatre showing a CinemaScope film. Records were still 78's with microgrove...

If you look at the header of the first VV page at Widescreen Museum, it makes interesing reading as far as 1.66 is concerned. I am sure somewhere I have the BFI chart of film ratios including frame enlargements and this shows an anamorphic print. Do you recall where you saw it Doug?

I've just posted a query about Richard 111 that Criterion are releasing at 1.66. Wasn't this one of the few if only VV title released with anamorphic prints for 2.0:1. 1.66 seems too narrow for this title.

While VV looks great on BD, its achilles' heel was always its sound system-glorified mono pretending to be stereo. That's why I will always prefer CS from this era and looking forward to some more titles to follow The Robe.