List of early wide-gauge films


These early wide film processes employed a number of different frame sizes and perforations per frame.
  • Films made by American Mutoscope and Biograph 62 mm, 1.36:1, 6 perf. - b) 2 7/8 inch, 1.19:1
  • Films made by Demeny-Gaumont - Chronophotographe, 60 mm, 1.22:1, 4 perf.
  • Henry Regatta Birt Acres, Barnet, England - Palace Theatre, London, March 17 1897
  • Films made by Biograph, 68 mm, 1.375:1, non-perf.
  • The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight - Enoch J. Rector - Veriscope USA 1897, 63 mm, 1.65:1, 5 perf.
  • A film for Burton Holmes 2 3/8 inch, 1.31:1, 4 perf.
  • Lumière widefilm, 75 mm, 1.2:1, 8 perf.
  • Il sacco di Roma Enrico Guazzoni, one sequence in Alberini Panoramica/Panoramico Alberini: Italy 1914, Filoteo Alberini, 2.20:1, 5 perf., shot with rotating wide angle 65°
  • Widescope 57 mm, twin-lens camera, rotating lens; the split film was screened in 2 projectors
  • Niagara Falls Essanay, George K Spoor/P John Berggren, short, tinted or toned - Natural Vision = 63 mm, 1.73:1, 6 perf., separate 35 mm soundtrack, other screenings in 35 mm Magnascope
  • Tri-Ergon: German company, 42 mm 1924, New York
  • Rollercoaster Ride short - Natural Vision
  • You're in the Army Now July 18 in New York, only screening, Joseph Stanley, 2 reels - Magnafilm/Magnifilm Paramount 1929, Lorenzo del Riccio, 56 mm, 1.85:1, 4 perf.
  • Fox Grandeur News 1 reel - Fox Grandeur = Fox 1929-31, oversized soundtrack, experiment only with Perspecta-type directional sound, 2.13:1, 4 perf., Mitchell-camera
  • Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 David Butler, Marcel Silver, 80 min - Fox Grandeur
  • Happy Days Benjamin Stoloff, 86 min - Fox Grandeur
  • Niagara Falls 1 reel, from footage for Fox Grandeur News - Fox Grandeur
  • Song o' My Heart Frank Borzage - Fox Grandeur
  • The Big Trail Raoul Walsh, 122 min - Fox Grandeur, converted to 35 mm scope in 1985, also German and French 35 mm versions: Die grosse fahrt and La piste des géants
  • Campus Sweethearts
  • Danger Lights RKO, George B Seitz, 87 min, - Natural Vision
  • Fox 50 mm Wide Screen: ca 1930 4 perf, 1.77:1
  • A Soldier's Plaything Michael Curtiz, 57 min; - Vitascope = Warner 1931, 65 mm, 2.25:1, 5 perf. separate soundtrack,
  • Song of the Flame - Vitascope; first color film to use widescreen.
  • The Lash - Vitascope; also shot simultaneously in 35 mm
  • The Bat Whispers Roland West - Magnifilm, exhibited only in 35 mm, miniature and special effects scenes shot in 35 mm and re-photographed in 70 mm
  • Billy the Kid King Vidor - Realife; also shot in 35 mm, which was cropped in some cinemas; exhibited only in 35 mm
  • The Lash/Adios Jan 1, Frank Lloyd, 79 min - Vitascope
  • Kismet John Francis Dillon, 87 min, 1 min prolog showed the difference between 35 mm and Vitascope
  • The Great Meadow Charles Brabin - Realife; also filmed in 35 mm, exhibited only in 35 mm