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- From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
- Subject: Widescreen Movie Book, was Re: Aspect Ratio
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.042905.14885@uhura.neoucom.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 04:29:05 GMT
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- In article <C03A7L.n0E@cmptrc.lonestar.org> mitch@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Mitch Veenstra) writes:
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- [..looking for a book which gives movie aspect ratios...]
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- The only thorough work on the subject is:
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- WIDE SCREEN MOVIES by Robert E. Carr and R.M. Hayes (1988, McFarland)
- -in print and available through any bookseller by order for $40.
- It is confusing in places, contradictory in others, and (according
- to those who know) outright wrong in some. Still it is all that is
- available and you can look up movies in the index. It covers up
- through 1985-87.
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- The magazine THE PERFECT VISION (800-825-0061, $26 for 4 issues/yr.)
- covers issues of film aspect ratios quite thoroughly and the letters
- section often has comments from the people involved in the making
- of films reviewed.
-
- A book of laserdisc reviews from the Laser Disc Newsletter,
- THE LASER VIDEO DISC COMPANION, Updated Edition by Douglas Pratt
- (1992, New York Zoetrope, $25) does attempt to discuss whether
- particular laserdisc releases should have been widescreen or not.
-
- A recent entry THE LASERDISC FILM GUIDE by Jeff Rovin (1993, St.
- Martin's Press, NY, $16) does a very good job of considering aspect
- ratio of laserdisc releases, though only 300 plus titles are
- discussed.
-
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- The answer is never simple and is always changing.
- William L.R. (Bill) Cruce INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu
- Neurobiology Dept, NE Ohio U Coll of Med, POB 95, Rootstown, OH 44272
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