List of VistaVision films

The following is a list of films filmed using the VistaVision process for the majority of their runtime.

Films are live-action color features except where noted.

Films shot in VistaVision

1954–61: Original

Film	Year	Studio	Notes	Ref.
Paramount Presents VistaVision	1954	Paramount	19-minute promo film
VistaVision Visits Norway			Short film
White Christmas			First VistaVision release	[1]
3 Ring Circus				[2]
An Alligator Named Daisy	1955	Rank
Artists and Models		Paramount		[3]
The Desperate Hours			First B&W film shot in VistaVision	[4]
Doctor at Sea		Rank
The Far Horizons		Paramount		[5]
The Girl Rush				[6]
Hell's Island				[7]
Lucy Gallant				[8]
Richard III		London Films
The Rose Tattoo		Paramount	Black & white	[9]
Run for Cover				[10]
The Seven Little Foys
Simon and Laura		Rank
Strategic Air Command		Paramount
To Catch a Thief
The Trouble with Harry
VistaVision Visits Hawaii			Short film
VistaVision Visits Japan
VistaVision Visits Mexico
VistaVision Visits Spain
VistaVision Visits Sun Trails
We're No Angels
You're Never Too Young
Anything Goes	1956
The Battle of the River Plate		Rank
The Birds and the Bees		Paramount
The Black Tent		Rank
The Court Jester		Paramount
Away All Boats		Universal Pictures
High Society		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
House of Secrets		Rank
The Searchers		Warner Bros.
Hollywood or Bust		Paramount
The Leather Saint			Black & white
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Mountain
Pardners
The Proud and Profane			Black & white
The Rainmaker
The Scarlet Hour			Black & white
The Search for Bridey Murphy
The Spanish Gardener		Rank
The Ten Commandments		Paramount
That Certain Feeling
Three Violent People
The Vagabond King
VistaVision Visits Austria			Short film
VistaVision Visits Gibralter
VistaVision Visits Panama
War and Peace
Beau James	1957
The Buster Keaton Story			Black & white
The Pride and the Passion		United Artists
The Delicate Delinquent		Paramount	Black & white
The Devil's Hairpin
Doctor at Large		Rank
Fear Strikes Out		Paramount	Black & white
Funny Face
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Hear Me Good			Black & white
Hell Drivers		Rank
Ill Met by Moonlight
The Joker Is Wild		Paramount
The Lonely Man
Loving You
Omar Khayyam
The Sad Sack			Black & white
Short Cut to Hell
Spanish Affair
The Tin Star			Black & white
Wild Is the Wind
Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot			Short produced for Colonial Williamsburg
Another Time, Another Place	1958		Black & white
The Big Money		Rank
The Black Orchid		Paramount	Black & white
The Buccaneer
Desire Under the Elms			Black & white
The Geisha Boy
Hot Spell			Black & white
Houseboat
King Creole			Black & white
Maracaibo
The Matchmaker			Black & white
Rock-a-Bye Baby
St. Louis Blues			Black & white
Teacher's Pet
Vertigo
But Not for Me	1959		Black & white
The Five Pennies
The Jayhawkers!
Last Train from Gun Hill
Li'l Abner
North by Northwest		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
That Kind of Woman		Paramount	Black & white
The Trap
Heller in Pink Tights	1960
It Started in Naples
One-Eyed Jacks	1961		Last classic Hollywood VistaVision release

2024–present: Revival

Film	Year	Studio	Notes	Ref.
The Brutalist	2024	A24	Selected portions and wide shots filmed with Beaucam	[11]
One Battle After Another	2025	Warner Bros. Pictures	Beaucam used as primary camera for “somewhere between 70 and 80 percent” of the film	[12]
Bugonia		Focus Features	Wilcam and Beaucam used as primary cameras; “shot 95 percent” on Vistavision	[12]
Wuthering Heights	2026	Warner Bros. Pictures	Beaucam
Untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu film			Beaucam used for select sequences	[13]
Remain			Beaucam used for select sequences
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew		Netflix	VistaVision used for Narnia scenes; first streaming service film to use VistaVision cameras.

Films using VistaVision for visual effects process work or minor scenes only

• Star Wars (1977)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Caveman (1981)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981)
• Tron (1982)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Aliens (1986)
• RoboCop (1987)
• Coming to America (1988)
• Moonwalker (1988)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (approximately 80 percent of the entire movie shot on Vistavision) ^[14]
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Back to the Future Part III (1990)
• Die Hard 2 (1990)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Newsies (1992)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Speed (1994)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• True Lies (1994)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Jumanji (1995)
• The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
• Twister (1996)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Contact (1997)
• Men in Black (1997)
• Meet Joe Black (1998)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Mummy (1999)
• Gladiator (2000)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• The Mummy Returns (2001)
• Jurassic Park III (2001)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Men in Black II (2002)
• 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
• Flightplan (2005)
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Blindness (2008)
• Watchmen (2009)
• Inception (2010)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2 (2010/2011)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
• Captain Phillips (2013)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Spectre (2015)
• First Man (2018)
• Tenet (2020)
• Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
• White Noise (2022)
• Poor Things (2023)
• Chapter 51 (2025)

References

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14. https://theasc.com/articles/who-framed-roger-rabbit