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Line 10: == Film== ===History=== Widescreen was first widely used in the late 1920s in some [[short film]]s and [[newsreel]]s, including [[Abel Gance]]'s film ''[[Napoléon (1927 film)\|Napoleon]]'' (1927) which had a final widescreen sequence in what Gance called [[Polyvision]]. [[Claude Autant-Lara]] released a film ''Pour construire un feu'' (''To Build a Fire'', 1928) in the early [[Henri Chretien]] widescreen process, later adapted by [[Twentieth Century-Fox]] for [[Cinemascope]] in 1952. [[Paramount Pictures]] released ''[[Old Ironsides (film)\|Old Ironsides]]'' (1927) in a widescreen process called Magnascope, and [[MGM]] released ''[[Trail of '98]]'' (1928) in a widescreen process called Fanthom Screen. On May 26, 1929, [[Fox Film Corporation]] released ''Fox Grandeur News'' and ''[[Fox Movietone Follies of 1929]]'' in [[New York City]] in the [[70 mm Grandeur film\|Fox Grandeur]] process. Other films shot in widescreen were the [[Musical film\|musical]] ''[[Happy Days (1929 film)\|Happy Days]]'' (1929) which premiered at the [[Roxy Theater]], New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring [[Janet Gaynor]] and [[Charles Farrell]] and a 12 year old [[Betty Grable]] as a chorus girl; ''Song o’ My Heart,'' a musical feature starring Irish tenor [[John McCormack (tenor)\|John McCormack]] and directed by [[Frank Borzage]] (''[[Seventh Heaven (1927 film)\|Seventh Heaven]],'' ''[[A Farewell to Arms]]''), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger (the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930); and the [[Western (genre)\|western]] ''[[The Big Trail]]'' (1930) starring [[John Wayne]] and [[Tyrone Power, Sr.]] which premiered at [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] in [[Hollywood]] on October 2, 1930,<ref>[http://www.in70mm.com/newsletter/2001/64/grandeur/index.htm Widescreen films in the 1920s and 1930s]</ref> all of which were also made in the [[70mm]] Fox Grandeur process.