If you’d like to learn more about different film sizes, aspect ratios and changes in exhibition over the years – evidence of which can even be seen in The Picture House’s architecture – you’re in the right place!
Written by Martha Boyd
A brief history of changing film formats
8mm, 16mm, 35mm and 70mm are some of the most common gauges, or sizes, of analogue film used throughout film history. Analogue film stock consists of sequential still images called frames. When projected through a lens using a powerful light source, these images create the illusion of movement. The number refers to the width of each frame.
It all starts in the 1890s…
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