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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Technical specifications for
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Camera
Panavision Cameras and Lenses

Laboratory
Metrocolor, Culver City (CA), USA

Film length (metres)
1000 m (8 mm)
3695 m (Sweden)

Film negative format (mm/video inches)
35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247)
65 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)

Cinematographic process
Panavision (anamorphic)
Super Panavision 70 (special effects)

Printed film format
35 mm
70 mm (blow-up)
8 mm

Aspect ratio
2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints)
2.35 : 1

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