<PAGE>

    As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 17, 1997

                             Registration No. 333-

================================================================================
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                           ---------------------------
                                    Form S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ---------------------
                                PANAVISION INC.
        (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

          Delaware                                         13-3593063
  (State or other jurisdiction                           (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization) ___________________  Identification No.)

         6219 De Soto Avenue
    Woodland Hills, California                                  91367
(Address of  Principal Executive Offices)                     (Zip Code)


                       PANAVISION INC. STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)
                       ---------------------------------
                                William C. Scott
                      Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
                                Panavision Inc.
                              140 East 45th Street
                            New York, New York 10017
                                 (212) 867-5420
            (Name, address, including zip code and telephone number
                   including area code, of agent for service)
                 ----------------------------------------------
                                with a copy to:

                           Christopher E. Manno, Esq.
                            Willkie Farr & Gallagher
                              One Citicorp Center
                              153 East 53rd Street
                            New York, New York 10022
                                 (212) 821-8000

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
<TABLE>
=================================================================================================================
     Title of Securities                Amount to be        Proposed Maximum    Proposed Maximum     Amount of
     to be Registered(1)                Registered(1)        Offering Price     Aggregate Offering  Registration
                                                              per Share (2)          Price (2)           Fee
=================================================================================================================
<S>                                    <C>                      <C>            <C>               <C>
Common Stock, $.01 par value per share    2,190,150                $20.31         $44,487,422         $13,482
=================================================================================================================

<FN>
(1) Represents the shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the Panavision Inc. Stock Option Plan.

(2) Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) on the basis of the average of the high and low prices
    of the Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on January 15, 1997.

==================================================================================================================
</TABLE>


<PAGE>



                                     PART I
                                     ------

                        INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN THE
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT


                                    PART II

                          INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") by Panavision Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement: (a)
the Prospectus that was part of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1
(Registration No. 333-12235), which Prospectus was filed with the Commission on
November 21, 1996 pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"); and (b) the description of the Company's Common
Stock contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with
the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"); and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.

         All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, subsequent to the date of this Registration
Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such
reports and documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.


Item 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Inapplicable.

Item 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         Inapplicable.

Item 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         The Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the
"Certificate of Incorporation") provides that the Company shall indemnify each
person who is or was a director or officer of the Company to the fullest extent
permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law. Section 145 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law empowers a Delaware corporation to indemnify
any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the
right of such corporation) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving
at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation or enterprise. A corporation may indemnify such person
against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts

                                       2

<PAGE>


paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in
a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. A corporation may, in
advance of the final disposition of any civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative action, suit or proceeding, pay the expenses (including attorneys'
fees) incurred by any officer or director in defending such action, provided
that the director or officer undertakes to repay such amount if it shall
ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the
corporation.

         A Delaware corporation may also indemnify officers and directors in an
action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor
under the same conditions, except that no indemnification is permitted without
judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the
corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or
otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must
indemnify him against the expenses (including attorneys' fees) which he actually
and reasonably incurred in connection therewith. The indemnification provided is
not deemed to be exclusive of any other rights to which an officer or director
may be entitled under any corporation's by-laws, agreements, vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

         The Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director of the
Company will not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for
liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or
its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of
the Delaware General Corporation Law, which concerns unlawful payments of
dividends, stock purchases or redemptions or (iv) for any transaction from which
the director derived an improper personal benefit.

         While the Certificate of Incorporation provides directors with
protection from awards for monetary damages for breaches of their duty of care,
it does not eliminate such duty. Accordingly, the Certificate of Incorporation
will have no effect on the availability of equitable remedies such as an
injunction or rescission based on a director's breach of his or her duty of
care. The provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation described above apply
to an officer of the Company only if he or she is a director of the Company and
is acting in his or her capacity as director, and do not apply to officers of
the Company who are not directors.

         The Company's Amended and Restated By-Laws provide that the Company
shall indemnify any and all of its directors or officers, who shall serve as an
officer or director of the Company or of any other corporation at the request of
the Company, to the fullest extent permitted under and in accordance with the
laws of the State of Delaware.

         Members of the Stock Option Committee of the Board of Directors are
indemnified by the Company in connection with their administration of the Stock
Option Plan. The Company maintains a directors' and officers' liability
insurance policy.

         Sidney  Lapidus  and Joanne R. Wenig of E.M.  Warburg,  Pincus & Co.,
 Inc. ("Warburg"), members of the Company's Board of Directors,  are entitled to
indemnification  by Warburg for liabilities  incurred as a result of
their service as directors of the Company.


Item 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Inapplicable.





                                       3
<PAGE>




Item 8.  EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number           Description of Document
--------------           -----------------------

     5                   Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher
     23.1                Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors
     23.2                Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (included in their
                         opinion  filed as  Exhibit 5 hereto)
     24                  Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page
                         hereto)
     99                  Panavision Inc. Stock Option Plan (incorporated by
                         reference to Amendment No. 2 to the Company's
                         Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No.333-12235),
                         dated November 20, 1996).

Item 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

     (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1)  To file during any period in which offers or sales are being
          made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of
                    the Securities Act;

              (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
         after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
         recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
         aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
         in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
         increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total
         dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
         registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
         maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed
         with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
         changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change
         in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation
         of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;

             (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the
         plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
         statement or any material change to such information in the
         registration statement;

                  Provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do
         not apply if the information required to be included in a
         post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
         reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by such registrant
         pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
         incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.



                                       4
<PAGE>



         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provision, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.























                                       5

<PAGE>




                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of New York, State New York, on January 17, 1997.

                                 PANAVISION  INC.


                                 By: /s/ William C. Scott
                                     ---------------------------
                                     Name: William C. Scott
                                     Title:Chairman and Chief Executive Officer



                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Panavision Inc.
hereby severally constitutes and appoints William C. Scott and Jeffrey J.
Marcketta, and each of them as the attorneys-in-fact for the undersigned, in any
and all capacities, with full power of substitution, to sign any and all
amendments to this Registration Statement, and to file the same with exhibits
thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact, or either of them, may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

         Signature            Title                              Date
         ---------            -----                              ----

/s/William C. Scott           Chairman of the Board of         January 17, 1997
--------------------          Directors and Chief Executive
William C. Scott              Officer (Principal Executive
                              Officer)

/s/John S. Farrand            President and Director           January 17, 1997
--------------------
John S. Farrand


/s/Jeffrey J. Marcketta       Chief Financial Officer          January 17, 1997
-----------------------       (Principal Financial Officer)
Jeffrey J. Marcketta




                                       6

<PAGE>



/s/ Christopher M.R. Phillips     Controller and Secretary     January 17, 1997
-------------------------------
Christopher M.R. Phillips

/s/ Sidney Lapidus                Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Sidney Lapidus

/s/ Joanne R. Wenig               Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Joanne R. Wenig

/s/ Martin D. Payson              Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Martin D. Payson

/s/ Willis G. Ryckman             Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Willis G. Ryckman











                                       7


<PAGE>





                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS


Exhibit Number        Description of Document
--------------        -----------------------

    5                 Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher
    23.1              Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors
    23.2              Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (included in their
                      opinion  filed as  Exhibit 5 hereto)
    24                Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)
    99                Panavision Inc. Stock Option Plan (incorporated by
                      reference to Amendment No. 2 to the Company's
                      Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No. 333-12235),
                      dated November 20, 1996).
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 17, 1997

                             Registration No. 333-

================================================================================
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                           ---------------------------
                                    Form S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ---------------------
                                PANAVISION INC.
        (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

          Delaware                                         13-3593063
  (State or other jurisdiction                           (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization) ___________________  Identification No.)

         6219 De Soto Avenue
    Woodland Hills, California                                  91367
(Address of  Principal Executive Offices)                     (Zip Code)

                       PANAVISION INC. STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)
                       ---------------------------------
                                William C. Scott
                      Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
                                Panavision Inc.
                              140 East 45th Street
                            New York, New York 10017
                                 (212) 867-5420
            (Name, address, including zip code and telephone number
                   including area code, of agent for service)
                 ----------------------------------------------
                                with a copy to:

                           Christopher E. Manno, Esq.
                            Willkie Farr & Gallagher
                              One Citicorp Center
                              153 East 53rd Street
                            New York, New York 10022
                                 (212) 821-8000

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

=================================================================================================================
     Title of Securities                Amount to be        Proposed Maximum    Proposed Maximum     Amount of
     to be Registered(1)                Registered(1)        Offering Price     Aggregate Offering  Registration
                                                              per Share (2)          Price (2)           Fee
=================================================================================================================
Common Stock, $.01 par value per share    2,190,150                $20.31         $44,487,422         $13,482
=================================================================================================================
(1) Represents the shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the Panavision Inc. Stock Option Plan.

(2) Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) on the basis of the average of the high and low prices
    of the Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on January 15, 1997.

==================================================================================================================
PART I
                                     ------

                        INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN THE
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                    PART II

                          INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") by Panavision Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement: (a)
the Prospectus that was part of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1
(Registration No. 333-12235), which Prospectus was filed with the Commission on
November 21, 1996 pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"); and (b) the description of the Company's Common
Stock contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with
the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"); and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.

         All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, subsequent to the date of this Registration
Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such
reports and documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.

Item 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Inapplicable.

Item 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         Inapplicable.

Item 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         The Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the
"Certificate of Incorporation") provides that the Company shall indemnify each
person who is or was a director or officer of the Company to the fullest extent
permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law. Section 145 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law empowers a Delaware corporation to indemnify
any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the
right of such corporation) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving
at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation or enterprise. A corporation may indemnify such person
against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts

                                       2
paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in
a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. A corporation may, in
advance of the final disposition of any civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative action, suit or proceeding, pay the expenses (including attorneys'
fees) incurred by any officer or director in defending such action, provided
that the director or officer undertakes to repay such amount if it shall
ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the
corporation.

         A Delaware corporation may also indemnify officers and directors in an
action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor
under the same conditions, except that no indemnification is permitted without
judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the
corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or
otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must
indemnify him against the expenses (including attorneys' fees) which he actually
and reasonably incurred in connection therewith. The indemnification provided is
not deemed to be exclusive of any other rights to which an officer or director
may be entitled under any corporation's by-laws, agreements, vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

         The Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director of the
Company will not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for
liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or
its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of
the Delaware General Corporation Law, which concerns unlawful payments of
dividends, stock purchases or redemptions or (iv) for any transaction from which
the director derived an improper personal benefit.

         While the Certificate of Incorporation provides directors with
protection from awards for monetary damages for breaches of their duty of care,
it does not eliminate such duty. Accordingly, the Certificate of Incorporation
will have no effect on the availability of equitable remedies such as an
injunction or rescission based on a director's breach of his or her duty of
care. The provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation described above apply
to an officer of the Company only if he or she is a director of the Company and
is acting in his or her capacity as director, and do not apply to officers of
the Company who are not directors.

         The Company's Amended and Restated By-Laws provide that the Company
shall indemnify any and all of its directors or officers, who shall serve as an
officer or director of the Company or of any other corporation at the request of
the Company, to the fullest extent permitted under and in accordance with the
laws of the State of Delaware.

         Members of the Stock Option Committee of the Board of Directors are
indemnified by the Company in connection with their administration of the Stock
Option Plan. The Company maintains a directors' and officers' liability
insurance policy.

         Sidney  Lapidus  and Joanne R. Wenig of E.M.  Warburg,  Pincus & Co.,
 Inc. ("Warburg"), members of the Company's Board of Directors,  are entitled to
indemnification  by Warburg for liabilities  incurred as a result of
their service as directors of the Company.

Item 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Inapplicable.

                                       3
Item 8.  EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number           Description of Document
--------------           -----------------------

     5                   Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher
     23.1                Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors
     23.2                Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (included in their
                         opinion  filed as  Exhibit 5 hereto)
     24                  Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page
                         hereto)
     99                  Panavision Inc. Stock Option Plan (incorporated by
                         reference to Amendment No. 2 to the Company's
                         Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No.333-12235),
                         dated November 20, 1996).

Item 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

     (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1)  To file during any period in which offers or sales are being
          made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of
                    the Securities Act;

              (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
         after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
         recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
         aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
         in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
         increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total
         dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
         registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
         maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed
         with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
         changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change
         in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation
         of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;

             (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the
         plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
         statement or any material change to such information in the
         registration statement;

                  Provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do
         not apply if the information required to be included in a
         post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
         reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by such registrant
         pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
         incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

                                       4
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provision, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

                                       5
SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of New York, State New York, on January 17, 1997.

                                 PANAVISION  INC.

                                 By: /s/ William C. Scott
                                     ---------------------------
                                     Name: William C. Scott
                                     Title:Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Panavision Inc.
hereby severally constitutes and appoints William C. Scott and Jeffrey J.
Marcketta, and each of them as the attorneys-in-fact for the undersigned, in any
and all capacities, with full power of substitution, to sign any and all
amendments to this Registration Statement, and to file the same with exhibits
thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact, or either of them, may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

         Signature            Title                              Date
         ---------            -----                              ----

/s/William C. Scott           Chairman of the Board of         January 17, 1997
--------------------          Directors and Chief Executive
William C. Scott              Officer (Principal Executive
                              Officer)

/s/John S. Farrand            President and Director           January 17, 1997
--------------------
John S. Farrand

/s/Jeffrey J. Marcketta       Chief Financial Officer          January 17, 1997
-----------------------       (Principal Financial Officer)
Jeffrey J. Marcketta

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/s/ Christopher M.R. Phillips     Controller and Secretary     January 17, 1997
-------------------------------
Christopher M.R. Phillips

/s/ Sidney Lapidus                Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Sidney Lapidus

/s/ Joanne R. Wenig               Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Joanne R. Wenig

/s/ Martin D. Payson              Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Martin D. Payson

/s/ Willis G. Ryckman             Director                     January 17, 1997
-----------------------
Willis G. Ryckman

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number        Description of Document
--------------        -----------------------

    5                 Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher
    23.1              Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors
    23.2              Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (included in their
                      opinion  filed as  Exhibit 5 hereto)
    24                Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)
    99                Panavision Inc. Stock Option Plan (incorporated by
                      reference to Amendment No. 2 to the Company's
                      Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No. 333-12235),
                      dated November 20, 1996).