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Widescreen DVD

posted 18 years ago by moondoggiedaddy2007
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"The 3 Worlds of Gulliver" was released in the USA as a full screen, pan-and-scan (1.33) format. However, you can get a widescreen (2.35) format from Amazon.co.uk, but it's in Region 2 (DVD-PAL). If enough fans write to Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia/TriStar) asking for a widescreen format for Region 1 (NTSC-DVD), maybe they will finally release it. Contact:

Jeff Blake, Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Chairman, Worldwide Marketing & Distribution
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Sony Pictures Studio (Columbia/TriStar Pictures)
10202 W. Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232-3119

[–] moondoggiedaddy2007 17 years ago

A widescreen presentation will be shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), on 26 January 2008 (Friday), at 6:00 PM. Double check their schedule as TCM sometimes changes it. Get your VHS/DVD recorders ready. According to TCM, its duration is around 100 minutes.

[–] obit1 17 years ago

In order for the image to be "wide screen", the top and bottom have been cropped and we are losing frame area....this film was shot FLAT...1:33

The Morlocks at Sony have created a fake widescreen to appeal to the hoi poloi whom they feel won't watch anything unless it is "panaramic"

http://www.woodywelch.com

[–] DavidW1947 15 years ago

Quite right, obit1, I have some 35mm frames I clipped out of a copy of it I ran back in my projectionist days and it was open matted and was not shot in any widescreen process...certainly not in 2.35:1 as one of the above posters stated.

[–] Blueghost 14 years ago

Very cool to know.

I don't see any pan and scan or other video artifacts as I watch it now.

[–] John-367 12 years ago

There may be some confusion because most films, after the introduction of widescreen in the 1950s, were shot non-anamorphic but with the intention that the top and bottom of the image would be cropped off in projection to, more or less, 1:1.85 (near enough 16:9).
Many films were shot "open gate" with the intention that the full image would be shown on TV to avoid panning and scanning. That meant though that filmmakers had to try to "protect" the top and bottom of screen to avoid the tops of sets, lamps etc coming into shot (with varying success) and films shown on TV had aesthetically ugly loose framing.
Filmmakers hated the compromised framing and although many would have preferred to have been able to continue shooting the old academy ratio they universally intended the cinema release (cropped top and bottom) version to be the definitive version of their work.

Incidentally, the amazon.co.uk DVD version currently is "16:9 - 1.77:1" i.e. pretty much the cinema framing - perhaps the OP was misinformed.

[–] Blueghost 12 years ago

That's right.

[–] clacton0 12 years ago

Just seen it for the first time.
Had seen the Jack Black one but not this before.
My copy was from Film 4 and also in widescreen.
I gave it a 5 out of 10.
I note in the one the little girl was his friend in this.

www.youtube.com/eastangliauk

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