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Is this movie widescreen?

posted 19 years ago by brett-archibald
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I just recently got my copy of this movie on DVD, and I notice that the screen format for it is 4:3 and not either original theatrical letterbox widescreen-1:1.85 or TV widescreen-16:9.

Wasn't this movie ever in movie theatres, in widescreen format?

My DVD is a UK / European release, which I got from:
http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=srmr&page=title&r=R2&title=112173
so I'm wondering if that's got anything to do with it.

Does anyone know anything more about this?

[–] brett-archibald 19 years ago

P.S: I had a look on both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk for these DVDs and checked out the technical spec.s for both.
The .com version says it's widescreen anamorphic and the .co.uk version says it's 4:3 fullframe. Why the hell did they do this? Why would anyone crop a widescreen movie into 4:3 for a DVD release in this day and age?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004WG2D/103-2994629-4589429?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846&vi=tech-info

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000085RNT/qid=1127342470/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-5994368-5265426

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