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Super Technirama 70 is basically just regular Technirama reframed to 2.20:1 (the negative aspect ratio is 2.25:1) when printing and adding 6-track stereo. It could be considered a forerunner of the 70mm Blow-up system due to the o-negs being 35mm originally (albeit printed VistaVision style).

Well considering the way Technirama worked (an anamorphic squeeze applied to a VistaVision-type frame yeilding 2.25:1), it would be completely impossible not to have some form of cropping, either to 2.35:1 or 2.20:1 (Super Technirama 70) . The 2.30:1 image on the dvd is a sort of happy medium...