Posted by Bill Binder on 10/11/05 13:20

> This is completely false. The first round of DVDs were done from the
> video masters made in the 80s and look inferior. Because of this, his
> family ordered a second, entirely new set of transfers from clean prints
> for the "current DVD releases" in 2001, which are of superb quality.
>
> What a load of rubbish.

No need to get upset. I gladly stand corrected on the cleaned up
transfers issue. I still stand by the assertion that the area of
intended ratio is in dispute: not that they were definately intended to
be wide, but that the intended ratio is an area of some contention. The
fact that people are discussing it here, with intelligent arguments on
boths sides supports this. And yes, the film was shot open-matte as are
a huge number of films not intended that way. It is after all, a much
cheaper process to matte the film than buy more expensive filmstock.
If you enjoy the fullscreen transfers, God Bless.

Bill

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