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Todd-AO Cinemat.|tɒd eɪ əʊ|
[f. the name of Mike Todd (1907–58), U.S. stage and film producer, + the initials of American Optical Co.]
The proprietary name (in the U.S.) of a cinematic process producing a wide-screen image. Freq. attrib.
1955Times 6 Aug. 3/5 The Todd-AO process uses 70mm. film instead of the standard 35mm. It has six sound tracks running at 30 frames a second as against the usual 24. The image is projected on to a huge curved screen presenting a picture about 25 ft. high and 65 ft. wide. 1955Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Nov. tm 239/2 Todd-AO. For motion picture equipment. Use since August 1953 on motion picture camera equipment... The Todd-AO Corporation, New York. 1958New Statesman 26 Apr. 530/3 There can be no question about it; Todd-AO wipes the floor with Cinerama. 1958Observer 27 Apr. 15/6 The Todd-AO screen is a huge, incurved affair, rather like the other side of a monstrous broken cup. 1976Oxf. Compan. Film 692/2 His [sc. Todd's] main contribution to films..was his promotion of a new 70mm wide screen process, called Todd-AO, in the mid-fifties. |