[ScottFromSpokane]

Trivia: John Wayne's first starring role came in The Big Trail, from 1930, which was shot in both standard 35mm and 70mm widescreen.

It tanked, and Wayne spent the next 9 years working in ultra-low-budget Poverty Row B-Westerns.

[Borges]

Widescreen films only started being made in the 1950s.