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Wrong Aspect Ratio?

posted 18 years ago by Inkwell765
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To my knowlege, 50's Superscope was 2:1, not 2.35:1, and should be a slightly narrower shape, halfway between VistaVision (1.85:1) and CinemaScope (2.35:1). To support this, there are many scenes on the Lions Gate DVD where the picture seems cropped too high at the bottom. This shows up in the credits, where the bottom line of the credits is almost resting on the frameline. Dose anyone else notice this?

"We have a powerful enemy somewhere within our planetary system." -Commando Cody

[–] Seafood_Licorice 17 years ago

it looks like the film is being stretched too far horizontally. i'm disappointed in the dvd release

[–] winter_spell 17 years ago

Yes, I noticed the same thing

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[–] JPfanatic93 17 years ago

If you think you had it bad, in my case only the first and last scene are widescreen. The rest is full frame, cropping of both sides and parts of the top and bottom. In some dialogue scenes you can't even see who's talking to who cos they're on either side of the frame. Real fracked up DVD release...

[–] jeepnman 16 years ago

I know this is a old thread by in case anyone is still around. More on subject.
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingss4.htm
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[–] petervenkman57 15 years ago

The whole issue of aspect ratio is a very confusing one. This is mainly because what is discussed when speaking of with films shot with optical compression fall into two different categories. One is the "squeeze ratio" and the other is the "Image ratio". Most films shot in an "Anamorphic" format are squeezed at a ratio of 2 to 1 (2:1) . In other words what ever the height or width of the film, it has been squeezed sideways in that ratio. Early CinemaScope films (The Robe, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and others) were shot with a film gate with a ratio of 1 to 1:33 yielding a widescreen format of 2:66. Later, the top and bottom of the image was cropped because you could actually see the splices go by (Forbidden Planet) and the sides were cropped to make room for a Magnetic Stereo Soundtrack. The resulting images was a 1 to 2:35 (When uncompressed). This is still the standard today for Panavision, CinemaScope and all other anamorphic formats