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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
IIRC, the reason 4:3 was established as the standard for early television is because it matched the same aspect ratio used at movie theaters.
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Academy ratio. Which is nearly 4:3 (1.333). It's 1.375:1 since 1932.
However loads of cinema was not in Academy ratio even before 1935 TV (5:4 in UK) or 1950s (4:3) TV.
Widescreen in various formats existed before the 1950s, even in 1930s.
It's true than in the USA (not UK) that the advent of color TV in 1952 in USA accelerated changing to colour and also Widescreen (various methods). There wasn't Colour TV in UK till 1967 and few had it before 1970.