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Hollywood's Love Affair with VistaVision

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Two of this year's top contenders for the Academy Awards were filmed using a technology from the 1950s: VistaVision. Filmmakers are reviving this visually stunning yet finicky film format at a time when movie theaters are struggling to get audiences back into theaters. Today on The Sunday Story, NPR's culture correspondent Mandalit Del Barco tells the story of the changing movie industry through the lens of VistaVision technology.