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- From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
- Subject: Re: Aspect Ratio for 7 popular films (Laserdiscs)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.044441.4072@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <ypq2gdl@rpi.edu> <1992Dec21.215958.16790@uts.uni-c.dk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:44:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.215958.16790@uts.uni-c.dk> idathon@uts.uni-c.dk (Hans O. Nymand) writes:
- >In <ypq2gdl@rpi.edu> kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim) writes:
- >
- >>1. Ben-Hur 2.63:1
- >
- >That's a pretty extreme letterbox. How does this look in real life?
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- MGM Camera 65, which is 2.76:1 (so this actually isn't wide enough :-)
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- >>2. Star Wars 2.44:1
- >
- >Hmm, that's wider than it was shot (2.35:1).
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- Something does seem amiss here. I'm pretty sure the Star Wars transfer
- was done at less than 2.4:1 (2.1 or 2.2 is more likely).
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- -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
-