ABSTRACT
The vast field of aspect ratios has so many variations that it is its own complex science. Throughout the first decades of moviemaking, the ratio was more or less set to 4:3, which was the ratio put in circulation by the Edison company in the mid-1890s and lasted until the beginning of the 1950s with slight changes in the precise size of the frame. Accompanying the ratio change is a shift in color and style. Saturation is increased, the characters become cartoonier, and the animals can talk. The standard aspect ratio for films from the beginning of the development of film was 4: 3 or 1.33:1. Most features produced through the 1950s, presented on a TV set, were shown in their original aspect ratio and not cut to fit the TV screen, as TV had the same or a similar aspect ratio as films for cinema.
