Walt Disney`s SECRETS OF LIFE Beginning and End of Movie in Widescreen and CinemaScope

Walt Disney`s "Secrets of Life" (1956) immpresively switches from widescreen to CinemaScope for the final segment. This video demonstates that effect better than watching the DVD does.

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Great presentation. I wonder how they accomplished this transition in the theater. Most of the film would have been projected with a spherical lens, since it was filmed with a spherical lens, but Cinemascope requires the use of an anamorphic projection lens, which unsqueezes the squeezed image on the film. They either had to stop the film and switch lenses, or else they must have used two projectors, with the final Cinemascope reel on a separate projector. Anyone know?

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Great presentation. I wonder how they accomplished this in the theaters. They would have needed two different lenses for the projector. A spherical lens for the non Cinemascope portions of the film, and an anamorphic lens to show the Cinemascope. So they either had to pause the film while the lenses were changed, or they used a second projector to show the Cinemascope portion. Many small theaters couldn't afford to show Cinemascope, so there must have been an alternate print for those theaters.