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Steve, Thank you for recognising the importance of documentation. It is very important regarding your claim that “every 1.37:1 film from this era should still look fine cropped to 1.85:1”. The evidence you have used to support your claim is a quote from a Kine Weekly article announcing the...

Re the aspect ratios of the Polanski films, here are the studio production listings from Kine Weekly for both Repulsion and Cul-de-Sac (from 1964 and 1965 respectively). Apologies if they've come out a bit small in the attachments: It's worth pointing out the above data did not come from...

Interesting. I must have missed this. Which UK trade are we talking here? Steve, can you please post it again? Thanks.

As this thread is called “Aspect Ratio Research” and not “Aspect Ratio Conjecture”, maybe it’s worth looking to see what kind of recommendations were being published at the beginning of the widescreen revolution, which would have informed cinematographers on how to adapt to these new techniques...

I recently came across this. I thought I'd share - it's a Kine Weekly news story from July 1953 and confirms exactly when Exclusive/Hammer switched to widescreen for "ALL future...productions" (end of June 1953). In the article, it says June 29 was when it began filming at Bray Studios. I think...

The following is an extract from a KINE WEEKLY article dated June 23 1955. A bit of background – many British exhibitors were worried about the increasing number of films being released in the anamorphic format. For those cinemas who had yet to install the lenses etc, it meant they couldn’t...

Found some more interesting stuff about widescreen distribution/exhibition in the UK. Will post as soon as I can...

Can you please tell me which posted article says this? Thank you.

Steve, please read previous posts. Your concerns you raise have been already been addressed. How about these two: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/319469/aspect-ratio-research/1200#post_3989830 http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/319469/aspect-ratio-research/1200#post_3989893

Shall we try Europe next? Found an interesting nugget of info in a CEA report published in the July 8, 1954 issue of Kine Weekly. It confirms that all British producers were following the recommendation re the 1.65 aspect ratio, but there’s also a little bit about what was happening in Europe.

Steve, I think you mistake what common-top actually is. A common-top shared by 1.66, 1.75 and 1.85 does not necessarily mean it has to share it with 1.37. Look at the article from 1955 you reposted yourself. You’ve even quoted the following: "Composition…should be standardised at a ratio of...

You raise an interesting issue. The report needs a bit of contextualising. I originally posted it to provide evidence on how widespread UK widescreen production was in early 1955, and that common-top composition was used, as well as useful info regarding the BBFC censor card. However, it’s...

Please find below a short article from KINE WEEKLY, July 14 1955, p. 9. It’s a brief update as to the progress of the British Standard that the BFPA, BKS, CEA and others were working towards (see the previous clipping). As you’ll see, it specifies a common-top approach to image composition, and...

I wouldn’t say they're contradictory at all. It’s just evidence that they had to make films which could accommodate different ratios. You’ve got to remember that the conversion to widescreen caused huge problems for exhibitors. Not all cinemas could put in super wide screens unless they ripped...

It looks like I’ve only got my 1954 box of KINE WEEKLY’s. Anyway, here’s a complete page from March 18 – it’s interesting to see the C.E.A. talk about things other than aspect ratios! The article on various studios’ response to CEA’s widescreen questionnaire is quite revealing. Exclusive’s...

Hi Bob, Thanks for all of your research on aspect ratios! I've got quite a few clippings from various British trade journals during this period. This is from KINE WEEKLY, January 21 1954, p. 35 I'll see what else I can dig up...

Long-time lurker and this THE CURSE OF FRANKESTEIN “debate” has finally got me to register! Further to Bob Furmanek’s question if anybody has got information regarding the C.E.A (Cinema Exhibitors Association) - I attach a February 1955 article from THE IDEAL KINEMA (supplement to KINEMATOGRAPH...