VistaVision is a cinematographic technique which uses higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35mm motion picture film format that was created and designed by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.
Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of its flat widescreen system by orienting the 35Â mm negative horizontally in the camera gate and shooting onto a larger area, which yielded a finer-grained projection print.