While traveling on business, I was shown around a film projection room. On a shelf was an anamorphic projection lens. As many of you doubtless know, the anamorphic process uses a pair of lenses to create a widescreen image on standard 35mm or 70mm film. The photographic lens squeezes the image along the horizontal axis so that the image looks narrow. The projection lens reverses this process to restore the original wide image. The process has been around for decades and was pioneered by Todd A/O. This was the first time I'd ever seen an anamorphic lens. The projection lens was about 3 inches in diameter and perhaps 8 or 9 inches long. Looking through the lens you could see a distinct cats- eye shape for the light path. It was a cool-looking chunk of glass. This of course has nothing to do with astronomy except for the aforementioned chunk of glass. MC