What's more important is whether you believe the actors' reaction to their surroundings, real or fake, and that's where the movie really shines. They even united two Oscar competitors: three years earlier, Jack Albertson won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Subject Was Roses over Gene...
I found two articles by Roger Ebert on the old full-frame DVD brouhaha from 20 years ago. Note the date of publication on the one by Salon; that was the last thing on people's minds that day for obvious reasons.
Either way, I'm still buying this disc. Whoever did the framing obviously had the same intentions in mind as whoever framed the 30th anniversary DVD that was only created after the uproar over a full-frame-only disc announced first. I haven't been able to track down the Roger Ebert rant about...
Were the original 35mm Technicolor prints open-matte or hard-matted? There's your answer.
Even so, they waited on a Wonka release in that format longer than I would have expected.
The oldest home video release I've seen of any kind was from 1984:
Not being born until the early 1980s, I had never seen any version prior to that late 1980s VHS in the slipcover with the WB shield replacing the \\' that replaced the Paramount mountain when it moved to the house that Jack built.
The Disney Channel had the rights to it in the early 1990s and I...