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The opening Columbia logo and the entire screen credits are letterboxed but not anamorphic.
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It's so strange - as soon as Preminger's credit is done it goes anamorphic.
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To be precise: The opening credits, like the entire feature, are indeed "anamorphic" in the sense that the video has been enhanced for 16:9, will play back in the correct proportions on a widescreen TV, and will be wrongly proportioned on a 4:3 screen without downconversion. However, the opening credits have been severely "windowboxed" so that the frame is much smaller than the rest of the feature, although it is still correctly proportioned.
I assume this was done so that none of the Saul Bass title sequence would be obscured by the overscan found on most consumer TVs. I agree that they overdid it on the windowboxing -- the proportions didn't need to be shrunk so substantially -- but I'm not troubled by it.
M.