Posted by Joseph S. Powell, III on 10/21/05 06:27

"Nick Macpherson" <NMacphe421@AOL.com> wrote in message
news:1129811625.445058.73920@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>
> Derek Janssen wrote:
> > moviePig wrote:
> > >
> > > Jay G. wrote:
> > >
> > >> Black Locust <bl2112@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Widescreen DVDs spread - Along with wider TV sets
> > >>> By Susanne Ault
> > >>>
> > >>> A representative of specialty retailer Tower reports noting an
uptick
> > >>> of about 5% in widescreen purchases over the past year, though the
> > >>> broadest releases such as Buena Vista Home Entertainment's Oct. 4
> > >>> Cinderella still sell 75% in fullscreen versions.
> > >>
> > >> Actually, in the speicifc case of Cinderella, 100% of the purchases
are
> > >> "fullscreen", as the 4:3 ratio is the original movie ratio of the
> > >> film, and
> > >> thus the only option available on DVD.
> > >
> > > Not at all. For us "connoiseurs", there's a version with *four* black
> > > bars...
> >
> > Yes, but the article citing was to be meant in the traditional a.v.d
> > spirit of "Why won't Warner release the widescreen 'Gone With the
> > Wind'?--Sign my petition!" ;)
> >
> Stanley Kubrick preferred 4:3 to widescreen but if he was alive today
> he'd realize he was wrong so we need the Kubrick DVDs re-released in
> widescreen no matter what his family says.
>

But Kubrick shot his films (with the exception of 2001) in 4:3 ratio, so if
these were to be re-released in Widescreen, we really WOULD be missing
material that the director intended to be seen.
That's not to say that I don't wish Kubrick would have embraced Widescreen
at the time he filmed them, it's just that in this case it really would be
slapping black bars over the screen - we wouldn't be gaining anything, and
Widescreen advocacy has always been about gaining the missing material on
the sides that's missing with Pan & Scan.
But Kubricks 4:3 films are 4:3 matted, not pan & scan.

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