LHypergonar

An anthology of tests of the Hypergonar system ancestor of the CinemaScope invented late in the 1920s by French astronomer Henri Chrétien Anamorphosis That is the deforming an image and then straightening it using a suitable mirror was once a popular curiosity Henri Chrétien imagined lenses that make it possible to anamorphose the image when shooting then to deanamorphose it when projecting Shot by Chrétien between 1938 and 1949 Vues Hypergonées as the film is also known was restored in 1999 by the French Cinémathèque from a 269meter nitrate copy for the retrospective Jeune Dure et Pure A history of avantgarde and experimental cinema in France