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Posted by P Pron on 11/18/05 05:40
One-Shot Scot wrote:
|| I watched the special features of _Oklahoma!_ which told of the
|| ultra-widescreen, Todd-AO (30 fps) (70 mm version) and how it was
|| designed to compete with Cinerama. But, because very few theaters
|| had the extra-wide screens and special projectors needed for
|| Todd-AO, a CinemaScope (24 fps) (35 mm version) was concurrently
|| produced.
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|| What I don't understand is why the DVD versions are as follows:
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|| 2.20 : 1 (70 mm version) Todd-AO
|| 2.55 : 1 (35 mm version) CinemaScope
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|| It seems that the Todd-AO version would be the wider of the two, but
|| it isn't. While the Todd-AO version has more headroom, the
|| CinemaScope
|| version shows a lot more picture information on the sides. I would
|| expect the opposite to be the case.
I was surprised by this as well, when I first saw the Todd-AO version on
laserdisc - excellent, incidentally.
I think the point was that the use of 70mm film meant that the whole thing
could be bigger and sharper (rather than just wider) without loss of
definition - which makes it ironic that the DVD issue is so
disappointing.... I haven't got the DVD yet, and am in no particular hurry
now, having seen so many adverse reports. I think I'll wait for a sale, and
buy it for the extras idc.
If you haven't already, you might like to plough through
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingto2.htm which is a lengthy
article about Todd-AO. I think I saw in one of the reviews that the
"curator" of the website participates in one of the docus on the new DVD
paul
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