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I was 19 and impressionable and I saw just about everything mainstream to obscure that was released. What can I say? I can vividly recall the thrill of the roadshow 50s & 60s, and also the disappointment when I detected deletions seeing some of them years later like South Pacific, The Alamo, or...

I saw it theatrically at 1.85:1 and the later 1.85 composition is not the same. It’s not of great importance but one wonders if any other reframing happened along the line in the newer transfers and versions.

In the DVD Definitive Director’s Cut the pool scene is cropped and not as originally shown theatrically. The same was true in the widescreen laserdisc I’m sure (a lady bought some of my discs years ago and that was one of them). I’m not clear what other changes were made since there are...

“That shot” was fully revealing in the original theatrical showing ratio (1.85:1), but later zoomed and/or cropped, and I remember reading about other potential minor changes, but it’s been long enough ago I can’t recall the exact source. But I’ve never seen it 4:3, so that’s not where the...

Later prints were zoomed in to tone down the nudity, like in the pool scene that originally was more graphic and later reframed in the home video prints I have seen. Not sure if Bogdanovich had second thoughts about it or if some of the performers regretted it (I read he was very protective of...

Agreed. And is the theatrical version actually the OCN framing without the manipulations Bogdanovich later implemented?