Regent Theatre

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During 1953 news coming from America about revolutionary Cinemascopic widescreen and 3-D processes with surround sound, caught the imagination of the Australian movie-going public. News media were anxious to provide the latest news on developments, and naturally companies like 20th Century-Fox and Hoyts were keen to provide as much promotional material as the market could stand. Newspapers were happy to print press releases verbatim, without questioning dubious claims. Case in point: this Fox diagram widely published around the world, mis-representing CinemaScope as being three times the width of the standard screen size (2.55:1 is not even twice 1.33:1).