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- From: glk9533@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach)
- Subject: Re: aspect ratios
- Message-ID: <23DEC199214244619@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:24 EST
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- In article <1992Dec23.160059.13848@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Jonke <jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes...
- >In article <1992Dec22.185453.9577@nosc.mil> Mike Randle, randle@nosc.mil
- >writes:
- >>During TNT's recent letterbox Sunday, Coppola was interviewed about
- >>letterboxing. He stated that he always shot his films at Academy
- >>ratio so that they would not be butchered on TV. I got the impression
- >>that if letterboxing were the norm, he would shoot films widescreen.
- >
- >So he makes "made for TV" movies? If what you are saying is true then his
- >films are cropped in the theater and never should have been released in them.
- >
-
- Maybe Coppola meant that he "frames" most of the action in a 4:3 area and the
- extraneuous info outside of this 4:3 area is "unimportant."
-
- >Steve
- >------------------------
- >jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
- >------------------------
- Greg
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