Posted on 12/06/2004 11:15:57 AM PST by ambrose
Legalities of who owns the title. Not the title of Hamlet itself but rather the movie. I'll have to google it to get the exact story.
Was it 480p?
My Bodyguard - with matt.
It's a classic that all modern high school kids should be exposed to. 8^>
Benny Hill had a funny skit were they used pan and scan.
Lady & The Tramp was actually animated in Full Screen and Widescreen versions.
Why is it that television commercials and music videos have been broadcast "widescreen" for over a decade yet no network is still willing to show films this way?
I know with the new "digital" broadcast some are, but that opens a whole 'nother can of worms as the NBC logo in the corner of the screen is cropped in half on my traditional tv set.
How do the previous 50+ years of television look on those new "widescreen" tvs? Black stripes up the sides of the picture? Zoom cropped to cut off foreheads and chins?
The "solution" is to use a video projector and thus "every screen" is the right size (and original aspect ratio can be maintained).
More often than not these days, "full screen" will give you more image at times (open matte) and less image at other times (special effects closeups, and some information that falls out of the "television safe" middle of the screen). Few people in Hollywood don't consider television broadcast in the lifespan of their films.
TV shows should be windowboxed on widesreen TVs (black bars on the sides).
Since I only need it to project movies, the "wall projector" is the only way to go for us. The "flat screen tv's" are just the new replacement for tv's, and probably cheaper to mass produce than glass tubes with their accompanying high voltage chassis.
At todays prices, and for those of us who only want to watch pre-recorded material, flat screen and plasma tv's make no financial sense whatsoever - especially when the picture from a five lb. projector is BIGGER and BETTER!
Yep. My projector is only 3.5lbs and I use it for everything - I don't own any tv's or monitors. The only drawback is the high cost of replacement lamps. I had to order one today and it was $325.
Speaking of Kubrick, one of the more hilarious pan & scans was the old fullscreen version of 2001 you saw for years on TV: the scene where astronauts Bowman and Poole discuss Hal's fate in the pod.
You're supposed to see both guys at the left and right of your screen, with Hal in the middle, but in pan and scan you cut between each speaking actor without seeing Hal, who we all know was lip reading all the time.
Also, supposedly, in 'The Shining', you can see the helicopter blades at the top of the shot when the camera settles on the Overlook Hotel at end of the opening credits. You can also see the helicopter shadow very clearly during those cool sweeping shots of the Volkswagen during the credits.
I still prefer laserdisc for "instant accessibility" (no stupid menus to select chapters; no "Easter Egg" features), 50k+ frame image discs (for example art collections or NASA photos, as well as several hundred production still collections for a given film).
Animation transferred to CAV at true "1 frame" freeze frame capability.
Fast foward motion on a CAV disc was truly an accelerated version (forward or reverse) as every single frame was displayed, none of this "CD like" skipping ahead.
And although the resolution may have been "lesser" there is no compression artifacting. DVD has improved in this regard but some companies still fall short in their DVD production.
"except it isn't digital."
You mean video isn't digital but the LD format does offer digital audio.
I don't know the exact resolution. I do know video on LD was better than VHS.
What's odd about 2001 is that the production stills for that film were all at the original aspect ratio, something that few other films EVER did or do today (generally they are just 8x10 regardless of the aspect ratio).
Well, I figured that much..
"A League Of Their Own" actually makes me dizzy with the abrupt swings in the pan-and-scan version.
"Widescreen films only started being made in the 1950s."
Many studios though who library content of those movies are now expending money and rematting them for release on DVD.
I recall back in the 1970s (and even 80s) when it was common to see a movie broadcast (generally a spaghetti western) from a scope print with a flat lens.
Everyone was super thin. Sometimes this was just done for the opening/closing credits, other times the whole film would be shown that way.
You can still mimic this by setting your DVD player controls to "think" that you have a different type of tv than you actually do.
Which brings up ANOTHER beef about DVDs. I've seen several production companies that automatically ASSUME I have a 16x9 tv. I have to toggle my DVD player's setting just so that I can move the cursor over the appropriate DVD menu options.
I tried to google some facts on LD and the format is in decline. I didn't want to try what it was without having the facts.
I know this much... my SW OT LDs and Hamlet are now worth a bunch of $$$.
When art theives cut a painting (on canvas) out of a frame from the front, they DO engage in such editorial decisions.
We use a setting that "stretches" the picture horizontally slightly (essentially, anamorphic fullscreen, so to speak) -- it's a little strange for about 5 minutes, then you get used to it.
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