Aspect Ratio Documentation (3 Viewers)

[RolandL]

Those glasses are what came with the dvd.

Cool! I just bought the DVD on eBay - comes with the glasses. I just contacted a few of the sellers and one of them came with the glasses.

 

[Gary Couzens]

I was flipping around the dial yesterday and stumbled on Paul Newman in The Left Handed Gun. TCM was showing it in an open matte 4:3 presentation, and it's a 1958 film!

I reviewed the Region 1 DVD in 2006: that is in a ratio of 1.78:1, presumably opened up slightly from an intended 1.85:1.

 

[Matt Hough]

I reviewed the Region 1 DVD in 2006: that is in a ratio of 1.78:1, presumably opened up slightly from an intended 1.85:1.

Yes. I've got it on my shelf, too, and though I haven't watched it for quite some time, I was pretty sure it was an anamorphic widescreen transfer.

 

[Gary16]

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[Brandon Conway]

Gary - Matt is referring to The Left Handed Gun, not 13 Ghosts.

 

[Gary Couzens]

Stage Struck (1958), Sidney Lumet's second feature, is on BBC2 next Saturday morning. The IMDB gives the ratio as 1.37:1 and also has this in its trivia section for this film: "One of the last films made by RKO, and one of the few theatrical films made after the coming of widescreen to be shot in the old "Academy ratio" (1.37: 1)." Is this correct, or is this - I suspect - nonsense?

I'll be very surprised if the BBC show it in anything other than 4:3 though.

 

[Bob Furmanek]

STAGE STRUCK began filming on January 21, 1957 in New York.

 

[Charles Smith]

Wow. Nice "trivia", BBC.

 

[Mark-P]

Interesting. That clipping shows Teacher's Pet with a ratio of 2:1 (the max for VistaVision) even though we know the recommended ratio for VV is 1.85:1.

 

[John Hodson]

Wow. Nice "trivia", BBC.

That info comes, as stated by Gary, from IMDB; the font of much disinformation.

 

[Bob Furmanek]

VV was initially recommended for 1.85:1 but it changed at some point to 2:1.

 

[Brandon Conway]

Well this stinks - I ordered 13 Ghosts expecting it to not have the viewer, but didn't realize the reissue version dropped the Illusion-O version of the film entirely, having just the regular B&W video. Only spent $5, but still. Live and learn, I guess.

EDIT: Fortunately, I've been able to track down a copy of the William Castle box I can borrow that does have the Illusion-O version. Hooray for small victories!

 

[Gary Couzens]

STAGE STRUCK began filming on January 21, 1957 in New York.

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Thanks, Bob. I feel an IMDB correction coming on, when I have a moment. And I couldn't help but notice another vexed aspect ratio case immediately above Stage Struck, namely Touch of Evil. *ducks*

I wonder if someone thought that because Lumet had a long history in television, he naturally composed for Academy Ratio. (He never shot a film in Scope as far as I'm aware.)

 

[Bob Furmanek]

Save a Hollywood landmark: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/330/290/272/save-historic-phantom-of-the-opera-stage/?taf_id=12572793&cid=fb_na

Please share!

 

[Bob Furmanek]

KISS ME KATE will be released in 3-D, 1.75:1 widescreen and three-channel stereophonic sound by Warner Bros. on 3-D Blu-ray in 2015!

 

[DP 70]

KISS ME KATE will be released in 3-D, 1.75:1 widescreen and three-channel stereophonic sound by Warner Bros. on 3-D Blu-ray in 2015!

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Excellent news,I hope we get to see a 3D DCP at some point.

 

[Matt Hough]

Excellent news,I hope we get to see a 3D DCP at some point.

Yes, I'd certainly journey to a nearby theater to see this on the big screen in 3D.

 

[Vic Pardo]

I saw KISS ME KATE in 3-D at the Film Forum in New York in the early '90s and it was, for me, the best use of 3-D of any film in that original 3-D wave of 1953-54. (I took my daughter, who was a child then, and she loved it, too.)

 

[Robin9]

KISS ME KATE will be released in 3-D, 1.75:1 widescreen and three-channel stereophonic sound by Warner Bros. on 3-D Blu-ray in 2015!

. . . . and I will buy it!

 

[AnthonyClarke]

I'll buy it too if they include a 2-D version as well .. I might convert to 3-D someday, but I'll have to wait till my present projector gives up the ghost!
This is a film I've loved for years and I do hope it gets cinema release in its restored form.
What a great double-bill it would make with Dial-M !