Posted by Walter Traprock on 11/11/05 06:38

Note that it is standard practice when preparing full screen
transfers of soft matted films to ZOOM within the full frame,
thus losing substantial parts of the left and right sides of the
theatrical presentation; there being no truly full frame
transfer. Now, how often, or, is it also standard, to prepare
widescreen versions for home video that were ALREADY prepared
as full screen versions for TV/video, thus actually cropping
all four sides for a correct aspect ratio but zoomed widescreen
picture? The vast majority of films from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s
are soft-matted, and first transfered for TV/video without any interest
in retaining the widescreen theatrical ratio, and the world of film
transfering is so secretive; IS IT SAFE to assume that no new
transfer is generally made at all, and older movies are simply
the ZOOMED IN un-matted frame and then further cropped to make
the resulting widescreen versions that are widescreen but
reduced on all four sides from the theatrical version?

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