What was the title of the first feature film made in Cinemascope?
CinemaScope and all optical houses), and 2.35:1 or 2.39:1 or 2.40:1 is simply a hard-matted version of the others. Fox selected "The Robe" as the first film to start production in CinemaScope, a project chosen because of its epic nature. During its production, "How to Marry a Millionaire" and "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef" also went into Cinemascope production. "Millionaire" finished production first, before "The Robe", but because of its importance, "The Robe" was released first. Fox used its influential people to promote CinemaScope. With the success of "The Robe" and "How to Marry a Millionaire," the process enjoyed success in Hollywood.
CinemaScope Fox licensed the process to many of the major film studios including Columbia, Warner Bros., Universal, MGM and Walt Disney Productions. Walt Disney Productions was one of the first companies to license the CinemaScope process from Fox. Among the features and shorts they filmed with it, they created the live-action epic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," considered one of the best examples of early CinemaScope productions. Walt Disney Productions' "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", which won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) in 1953, was the first cartoon produced in Cinemascope. The first animated feature film to use