And some TV sets don't allow re-formatting or sizing of HD inputs. Mr Furmanek, so sad to see you don't have any love for 2.76 Ultra Panavision either...
That indicates that there is a 1:37 version out there, so maybe we can get Warner archive to sell it. I'm sure that they could sell a couple thousand copies of such a title (or at least as many as that Natalie Wood movie they issued on blu).John Hodson said:Just a reminder, according to Jeffrey Wells:
...Stevens also told me yesterday afternoon that a 1.37 version (which he called “an Academy aspect ratio version matching the original”) had been prepared for high-def/Bluray viewing. But he said that he was very satisfied with the look of the 1.66 version. and that “given the choice of having a 1:37 version placed in the center of a horizontal television screen with bars on each side, or a carefully configured 1:66 to 1 version that filled the screen, I am confident George Stevens would subscribe to the latter.”
According to Wells, the founder of the AFI simply wants to fill his widescreen TV. Which is flabbergasting.
Easy.John Hodson said:I've just be reading the comments of a contemporary projectionist, who says that to avoid chopping heads they set the aperture to the top of the frame, thus a deal of image was chopped at the bottom. Stevens and Griggs used the whole of the Academy frame when filming Shane, and, yes, I'm well aware of the value of screenshots, especially taken from the DVD (when they have had the whole of the neg to play with), but I'm interested, for instance, how they will deal with, say, this kind of shot:
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"Full screen" means that it fills standard home video screens. Apparently at whatever ratio one possesses.PaulaJ said:ClassicFlix has just posted the details of this disc (with bigger artwork).
It says... "full screen." Nowadays I'm not sure WHAT that means.
Shane (Blu-Ray) (1953)
NOW ACCEPTING ADVANCE ORDERS! Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Brandon De Wilde, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Elisha Cook Jr., Emile Meyer, Douglas Spencer, John Dierkes, Ellen Corby Director: George Stevens Genre: Blu-Ray, Westerns Year: 1953 Studio: Warner Home Video Length: 117 minutes Release Date: June 4, 2013 Rating: NR Format: DVD Misc: Color, NTSC, Full Screen Language:
English(Original Language)
Presumably, with a centred 1.66:1 matte, cinema audiences must have seen something like this:John Hodson said:I've just be reading the comments of a contemporary projectionist, who says that to avoid chopping heads they set the aperture to the top of the frame, thus a deal of image was chopped at the bottom. Stevens and Griggs used the whole of the Academy frame when filming Shane, and, yes, I'm well aware of the value of screenshots, especially taken from the DVD (when they have had the whole of the neg to play with), but I'm interested, for instance, how they will deal with, say, this kind of shot:
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Or they may choose to screw the pooch.Robert Harris said: