A New Look - A tangle of lenses, cameras, wires, amplifiers, electrical tubes and screen sections last week were carted into the Colonial Theater where Middletown will get its first peek at CinemaScope on Christmas Day. Manager Carl Long has announced the Dec. 25 booking "for an indefinite period" of "The Robe," the first release in the new movie process. When the Colonial set-up is completed, it will feature two new projectors, actually not needed for CinemaScope; special lenses; a sound system that throws its effects from speakers scattered through the theater; and a curved screen, about 2 1/2 times as wide as the normal screen. One technician, installing the Colonial equipment last week, explained that ordinary lenses are shaped like a half-slice of solid glass ball. The anamorphoscopic lens, used in CinemaScope, was in the form, he said, of a sliced, solid beer bottle or cylinder...

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