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I give up.

I explained why he protected the 1:33 picture - for future tv & cable sales. 99% of all non scope films from the introduction of widescreen were shot that way.

If they had absolutely wanted to push it, Kubrick's films could have been shown in 1:66 in North American cinemas if Warner Bros & Kubrick had wanted to hard-matte the 35mm prints with the 1:66 image pillar-boxed within the 1:85 frame. (Kubrick was one of the few directors who could have...

Odd that 1:66 seems like theater to you, since aside from the brief early days of widescreen it simply did not exist as a projection standard in North American cinemas. Bt the late 50's, pretty much everything in 35mm was run "flat" (1:85) or "scope" (2:35) and the studios making the films knew...