Well, it is cinemascope, so the image is compressed or stretched on the film, and only comes out to glorious 2.35:1 when you use a scope lens on the front of the projector.
However when capturing it, I'm not using an anamorphic lens, so it would be captured stretched and resized later.
As for a DSLR, it would be a good option but the shutter wouldn't survive. A movie is 24fps, and star wars runs at over two hours, so that is over 172,000 frames.
In movie mode, the DSLRs can only record for 5 minutes or so before the sensor starts to overheat, and they have aliasing problems because of the line-skip nature of the sensors when used in movie mode.
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