Posted by moviePig on 10/21/05 14:44

Nick Macpherson wrote:

> ... I'm sympathetic to Kubrick's 4:3 preference (which some people have
> said comes from his experience as a photographer). It worked fine
> during Hollywood's golden age. Like George Stevens said, widescreen is
> only good for shooting the Last Supper. That's an overstatement but
> the automatic assumption that there's something wrong with 4:3 is just
> as simplistic.

Did you know that human eye physiology accommodates lateral scanning
much more readily than it does vertical... while a rodent's eye is much
more given to vertical scanning, presumably owing to the threat of
airborne predators? Of course you didn't, because I'm making it up.
But I'd still bet there's a noticeable horizontal bias to the visual
field. Anyone knowledgeable nearby?

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