Film Language Tag: anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1)

Relating to a process that uses a special lens to record a widescreen image within the space of a standard image. The camera lens distorts the image, compressing in the horizontal direction twice as much as the vertical, making everything look tall and skinny on the film strip. The projector lens or video display system reverses this distortion by expanding the image in the horizontal direction so that the presented image looks normal. Kroon, R. W. A/V a to z: An encyclopedic dictionary of media, entertainment and other Audiovisual terms. McFarland, 2014.