Who adopted the first wide-screen process film?

The first WIDE-SCREEN PROCESS FILM.

The first WIDE-SCREEN PROCESS FILM was adopted by Enoch J. Rector of the Veriscope Co. of New York for his 15 min production of the Corbett-Fitzsiinmons championship filmed at Reno, Nevada on 17 March 1897. The 70 mm film gave a picture ratio of 2 : 1.

The first wide-screen feature film was The Fox Movie tone Follies of 1929, filmed in the 70 mm Fox Grandeur process and presented on a 28 x 14 ft screen at the Gaiety Theater, Broadway on 17 September 1929. A number of other wide-screen processes were introduced during 1930 and 1931, including Warner Bros’ 65 mm Vitascope, Paramount’s 56 mm Magnafilm and RKO’s 60 mm Spoor Berrgren development, but the effects of the Depression forced studios to curb these experiments with unorthodox film gauges. The principal drawback at the time was the 60 per cent of the cinemas in the USA lacked space for a screen more than 24 ft wide.