Shane (1953)

[bluknight1]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

So that's correct. Remember spherical lens widescreen films are exposed "open matte" because 35mm cameras still have a 4:3 gate, but framed (composed) for widescreen in the camera viewfinder. That's how it gets done.

Shoulda been 3-D tho



That's not the same thing. It's the opposite. As you say framed (composed) for Academy 1.37 but to make it contemporary with the new widescreen releases competing with them at the time, the prints were projected cropped on wide screens.

We'll see if to make it contemporary with the new HDTV BD releases competing with them at this time, the BD will be transferred cropped on 16:9 screens. or not

My bad. I wasn't paying attention to my terminology. What I meant to say is that I want to see this and War of the Worlds presented on BD in 1.37:1 and not cropped to 1.66:1 or 1.78:1. A film should not be cropped to compete with other releases. If anything, that would increase grain and softness to levels that were not intended. The idea of a catalog release should be to reproduce the original experience as best as possible and not to make it more modern.