E. I. Sponable

Earl Ira Sponable
Earl Sponable
Earl I. Sponable
September 18, 1895
New York City, New York
November 16, 1977
Lake Placid, New York
82 years and 59 days
5’ 4” (1.63 m)
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Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
Winner markerScientific or Technical Award (Class I). To Professor Henri Chretien and Earl Sponable, Sol Halprin, Lorin Grignon, Herbert Bragg and Carl Faulkner of 20th Century-Fox Studios for creating, developing and engineering the equipment, processes and techniques known as CinemaScope.
Winner markerScientific or Technical Award (Class II). To 20th Century-Fox Research Department, under the direction of E. I. Sponable and Herbert E. Bragg, and Deluxe Laboratories, Inc., with the assistance of F. D. Leslie, R. D. Whitmore, A. A. Alden, Endel Pool and James B. Gordon for a system of decompressing and recomposing CinemaScope pictures for conventional aspect ratios.

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