Aspect Ratio Documentation (1 Viewer)

[DVDvision]

Meat Cleavering!

 

[Bob Furmanek]

It's VERY refreshing that Ned Price and his colleagues do not let mise en scene fantasies and five decades of full-frame TV memories cloud their thinking.

They let the original documents tell the story!

 

[Bob Furmanek]

From http://wogew.blogspot.com/

It's good to know that our research materials have made a difference, but it would be nice if they credit the source!

 

[Brandon Conway]

That's the internet these days. The pic has been copied over various forums to the point that they probably don't even know the source.Sent from my VS920 4G using Tapatalk

 

[TravisR]

Am I the only one who knows that it's a 180 and not a 360?

 

[David Weicker]

Am I the only one who knows that it's a 180 and not a 360?

Sorry to tell you, but the are back at 1.66

 

[Vincent_P]

Okay, do you really believe Criterion had A HARD DAYS NIGHT formatted, compressed, and thousands of Blu-ray copies ready to go at 1.66:1, and they suddenly changed their minds THIS PAST WEEK and redid everything at the last minute and are still on course to meet their release date....

OR PERHAPS the original press release had the aspect ratio wrong and that's the only thing they changed?

Vincent

 

[Yorkshire]

Something to remember - this is also appears to be getting a near-simultaneous UK release. Presumably the discs will be very similar in content and they'll almost certainly be using the same master - you'd have to guess the aspect ratio was discussed trans-Atlantic.

Unless the Criterion ends up 1.75 and the UK 1.66.

Steve W

 

[Robert Crawford]

Am I the only one who knows that it's a 180 and not a 360?

It's a common mistake made by many including myself, several years ago during a passionate work-related discussion which I was immediately corrected by some dork engineer.

 

[Yorkshire]

[pedant's corner]In that case, don't get me started on "I could care less". It's I couldn't care less".[/pedant's corner]



Steve W

 

[Mark-P]

Speaking of 1.66 vs. 1.85, screen caps have finally been posted of Young at Heart, and Olive decided to go with 1.66:1 for this one. I'm not sure if Bob has already posted any documentation on this one or not.

 

[FoxyMulder]

[pedant's corner]In that case, don't get me started on "I could care less". It's I couldn't care less".[/pedant's corner]

The following image has been modified from it's original aspect ratio and edge enhanced.

 

[Bob Furmanek]

Okay, do you really believe Criterion had A HARD DAYS NIGHT formatted, compressed, and thousands of Blu-ray copies ready to go at 1.66:1, and they suddenly changed their minds THIS PAST WEEK and redid everything at the last minute and are still on course to meet their release date....

OR PERHAPS the original press release had the aspect ratio wrong and that's the only thing they changed?

Vincent

On February 6 in a private e-mail, a producer at Criterion told me they were going with 1.66:1.

 

[John Hodson]

On February 6 in a private e-mail, a producer at Criterion told me they were going with 1.66:1.

Slowly but surely Bob, people are beginning to see the light. Keep fighting the good fight...

 

[Bob Furmanek]

Thanks, John. I should have watermarked that scan of the original leader before it went all over the Internet!

 

[Yorkshire]

On February 6 in a private e-mail, a producer at Criterion told me they were going with 1.66:1.

Now I'm extremely confused!

Are we saying they're still going with 1.66:1, or have you heard that they've changed their minds? At the moment all we have (as far as I'm aware) is the change of a couple of digits from 66 to 75 at the AHDN page at Criterion.

Maybe we won't know until the disc appears.

Steve W

 

[Panavision70]

Take That's Entertainment as an example. While the majority of clips are presented OAR, some of the montages cropped images for artistic purposes. And there were also at least 3 clips where they started out in the original 1.37:1 and then zoomed to 1.78:1 for effect. The instances I remember are "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" from Harvey Girls, the rodeo number from Annie Get Your Gun, and finally the ballet sequence from American in Paris. Who am I to say, "how dare you alter the image!"?

This was done to show what the films would have looked like in 70mm. I saw the film at the Cooper Cinerama in MInneapolis. The moments where image opened to full 70mm were thrilling! The first instance was the wedding cake spectacular from "The Great Ziegfeld." Narrator Frank Sinatra says "this is what it would look like today if anybody could afford it," as the screen opened full 70mm width.

 

[EddieLarkin]

I've been browsing the Sight & Sound digital archive these past few days and came across this eye opening article from the Q1 1955 issue:

http://i.imgur.com/wgG5Bo3.jpg

There were some pretty vocal hold outs it seems. I almost laughed out loud when I saw page 125: turns out our beloved pastime of sticking some frame lines on a 4x3 still to show how it would look in widescreen is something that debaters have been doing for nearly 60 years!

 

[Timothy E]

Does anyone know the OAR for Not As A Stranger? I was watching it this week on MGM HD in 1.33:1.

 

[Brandon Conway]

I believe it should be 1.85. warnerarchive.com says the 2011 MGM MOD is 16x9, but I don't think that's true per this review: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/49611/not-as-a-stranger/