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Widescreen films relying on wide [[Aspect Ratio]] shots to show themselves off. At first, these were largely landscape shots, but as they didn't give people headaches, they were a lot more successful, and an integral part of [[Scenery Porn]] in films.
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Contrast [[Pan and Scan]].
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* The desert shots in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]''
* One of the few memorable images in ''[[Pearl Harbor]]'' was the shot of the Japanese planes flying in from behind the camera.
* The Star Destroyer shot in ''[[A New Hope]]''.
* Kurosawa was fond of shots of Samurai standing far apart from each other, and was referenced at the end of ''[[Kill Bill]] part 1''.
* The final graveyard scene in ''[[The Good, the Bad
* Harold Ramis jokes that when ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' is shown in a cropped version he's cut out of every group shot since the film can only fit all the actors standing in a row in widescreen.
* [[Lampshaded]] in the [[Classic Disney Short]] "Grand Canyonscope", where Ranger Woodlore encourages a crowd of visitors to the Grand Canyon to spread out because they're in Cinemascope.
* ''[[Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter]]'' has a brief
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* Several tournament shots in ''[[A
* 1956's ''[[Around the World
* [[Benny Hill]] did a sketch where a widescreen film was being shown on TV with the [[Pan and Scan]] being done as it was being broadcast, resulting in missing just about every action of note.
* [[Joss Whedon]] deliberately put several of these in the ''[[Firefly]]'' pilot, to force the studio to broadcast the show in widescreen format. The network's response was that they would broadcast the pilot [[Screwed
* Well before widescreen was even a gleam in an inventor's eye, the 1973 [[Horse Racing|Belmont Stakes]] managed to pull one of these off by pulling the camera as far back as humanly possible when Secretariat - who would go on to demolish the competition with a 31-length win - rounded the far turn and began roaring down the backstretch. In fact, race caller Chic Anderson originally called the race as a 25-length victory, and it took careful analysis of that very widescreen shot to confirm the actual numbers.
* Two Oscar-winning movie musicals that [[Robert Wise]] directed, ''[[West Side Story]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', begin with aerial pans across the landscape of the respective movie's setting (either Manhattan or Austria).
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** The same thing is done in ''[[The Horse Whisperer]]'', with the widescreen not being used until the film gets to Montana to make the landscapes even more impressive.
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