Kalee VistaVision wide-screen system 35mm 8-perforation horizontal cine projector, manufactured by G-B Kalee Ltd, Leeds, 1954-5

This projector is not complete and has been assembled from two extant machines. Very few of these projectors were manufactured. VistaVision films were usually distributed as anamorphic 4-perforation vertically running prints capable of running on conventional 35mm film projector fitted with an anamorphic lens.

VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of its flat widescreen system by orienting the 35 mm negative horizontally in the camera gate and shooting onto a larger area, which yielded a finer-grained projection print. It is often referred to as 'lazy 8' due to the horizontal rather than vertical running of the film through the gate.