Henri Chretien

Henri Chretien was born on Feb 01, 1879 in France. Henri Chretien's big-screen debut came with Construire un feu directed by Claude Autant-Lara in 1930. Henri Chretien is known for Construire un feu directed by Claude Autant-Lara, José Davert stars as L'homme and Jean LeClerc as Chercheur d'or. The most recent award Henri Chretien achieved is International Festival of Historical Films "Beyond Time". The upcoming new movie Henri Chretien plays is Construire un feu which will be released on Dec 11, 1930.

A French inventor, Professor Henri Chretien developed the anamorphic wide-screen process that resulted in CinemaScope. Although similar systems had been patented earlier, Chretien developed his during World War I for use in tank periscopes. In the 1920s he applied it to film in Construire un feu (1930) and other shorts directed by the innovative French director Claude Autant-Lara. Chretien named his process "hypergonar" (from gonos=generation ?) and his lens an "anamorphoser". However, Chretien's process languished until 20th Century-Fox president Spyros Skouras acquired rights to it in 1952. Fox personnel further developed the process, and the US optical firm Bausch & Lomb perfected the lens to reduce distortion. The first film to use the refined CinemaScope process was La tunique (1953) in 1953. For creating the process, Chretien received a 1953 Academy Award.