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Posted by John Harkness on 11/11/05 08:49
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:38:59 -0800, Walter Traprock
<wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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?
It's never safe top assume anything, and it's certainly not safe to
assume what you're claiming.
I wont' say that it's never happened, but I can't think of any
widescreen films of that era that I've seen both theatrically and on
DVD that have been transferreed in the manner you describe.
John Harkness
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