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It's Panavision.

I think it was used for H.A.L.'s P.O.V. shots.

There are many shots in 2001 that have a lot of wide-angle lens distortion. I wonder if the curved screen actually corrected some of that distortion, or exaggerated it further?

I think it would look spectacular Smileboxed even on a non-HD display. 3 strip Cinerama films just aren't meant to be viewed flat.

Pressing discs is the cheap part of releasing a DVD. It is transferring the film to HD video itself which is the expensive part. It is quite possible that Warner have archived this film to 4K or even 6K. If that is the case they have spent hundreds of thousands on this release, which pales...

Sure most DVD buyers won't know what Smileboxing is, but the same is true for Blu-ray buyers, most of which won't be buying a 1962 film on Blu-ray. Smileboxing may be new, unfamiliar and unusual, but isn't that to be expected? There has never been a full film released in Smilebox on any home...

Yeah a boxed set is a good opportunity to release an official version. Check out DVDBeaver's comparison of Snows of Kilimanjaro, a PD version and the version in the Hemingway set: The Snows of Kilamanjaro - Gregory Peck

I worry that many companies don't bother issuing official releases of public domain films because they think consumers will just buy the cheaper PD releases, because they don't understand that an official release will offer better quality. In some ways you can't blame them...

Maybe it is as simple as it being in poor condition, and thus prohibitively expensive to release?

This makes sense. Warner devised Ultra Resolution, including the modified version used for The Searchers. So I can't see how they couldn't figure out how to stick together three images to make one. I just hope they have done it at 4K or 6K so they can convert it to IMAX DMR in the future.

I don't think those images represent a final grading of the colour. I mean they are mainly designed to demonstrate how the seems have been removed.

Do you honestly think they would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars preserving the film to digital, then decide not to release it on a format that has an install base of about 750 million players world wide? I wonder what Time-Warner's share holders would think if they did that...

Well, maybe he will get the SD UCE because there isn't a blu-ray UCE. :D

This would make sense if there was a blu-ray UCE version, but there isn't. For a blu-ray owner who wants the printed extras from the UCE they have to buy an SD version that they don't need. To me it is profiteering structuring the releases in a way that a blu-ray owner needs to also buy the SD...

WOW, that looks really good! And as the caption points out, Smilebox would actually make the SD-DVD transfer look better, because more resolution would be dedicated to the film image, rather than the letterboxing. Which makes the omission of a smileboxed version from the UCE just silly.

I just don't think Smilebox works well with Todd-AO material. Or more specifically, the curvature is too radical for a Todd-AO film on those examples from the documentary. I suspect that for a Cinerama film the smilebox format will look a lot better, probably better than watching it flat...

It's part of a documentary comparing Todd-AO with Cinerama. Basically they argue that Todd-AO was intended to be better than CinemaScope, but cheaper than Cinerama. I don't know why a Todd-AO film would have to be smileboxed as drastically as a Cinerama film. Were Todd-AO screens as...

I fear you are right, but to me that is an admission that the higher resolution audio and video of blu-ray isn't enough to motivate adoption of the new format. I've got a better way to entice people to buy a blu-ray player - drop the price of the discs so they are the same as SD-DVD.

That's a bit disappointing. For $60 I would've thought two copies of the film on SD-DVD UCE would've been entirely possible. My guess is that the smilebox version would use SD-DVD resolution more efficiently than a letterboxed version. But I agree it would require at least an extra disc, or side.

I'll get How the West Was Won UCE and the Warner Western Classics Collection. I wonder if HTWWW will include both a regular letterboxed, and the smileboxed version? I thought the Cinerama aspect ratio was 2.59:1? Does it become 2.89:1 after smile boxed? If this page is anything to go by...