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  1. Patrick McCart

    New Restorations-New Croppings

    I honestly don't know. I saw Casablanca in a theater, but it was cropped to 1.85:1. As for the width, you could see the the edges of the frame (black "lines" on scren) on the left and right, which isn't right either. To really find the correct framing, you'd basically have to overlay the...
  2. Patrick McCart

    New Restorations-New Croppings

    Just looking at DVDBeaver's captures... you can hardly see the date in the old DVD. This is a brief close-up of a check, so I really doubt the date was that crucial, anyways. No, but all previous transfers cropped the top and bottom of the frame, which is incorrect for the format (the result...
  3. Patrick McCart

    New Restorations-New Croppings

    It may just be a change in framing. The earlier DVD of Casablanca may have been framed to expose more of the frame, while the SE may have used the SMPTE (basically, official standards) framing for Academy Ratio films. I think a lot of people become too obsessed with cropping. More image...
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