P3D Re: Info about movie screen perspectives and a reference

["William Carter, Ph.D." <wc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:22 PM 11/24/98 -0700, Bill Costa wrote:

>... There has been
>    discussion in the past about aspect ratios of TV screens vs. movies,
>    etc.   If this topic is of interest to you point your web browser at
>
>         http://www.straightdope.com/columns/981120.html

It seems to me that Cecil Adams fell a little short of delivering the
"Straight Dope" on this topic.

"So your movie has had its theatrical run, and now you're releasing it on video.
What do you do? You could ship it out in the original 1.33:1 format, taking the
risk that extraneous items would sometimes be visible."

Both Techniscope and VistaVision were shot in special cameras exposing the
negative in a 1:1.85 ratio. Most of the "scope's" use an anamorphic lens,
squeezing an image on the frame. There is no "extraneous" masked information.


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