Posted by jayembee on 10/23/05 02:58

"Jordan" <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Strange... getting geared for Halloween I've been going through the
> Universal Legacy sets.
>
> The final Mummy movie (the Mummy's Curse) comes up with the "This
> Picture has been formatted to fit your screen" warning.
>
> ?
>
> Since it came out in 1944 I'm pretty sure it was always 1.33:1, just a
> goof on Universal's part? Or was someone so far ahead of their time
> that they were actually doing widescreen flicks in 1944?

Actually, "they" were doing widescreen as far back as 1927. But no,
none of the classic monster films from Universal were shot in widescreen.
It's just a goof. I've seen it on a number of other discs.

-- jayembee

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