Is The Wizard of Oz Screen Aspect Full Screen?

[42041]

Originally Posted by blugojira

i find black bars unnoticeable when watching movies
does everyone have add or somthing?

many people here seem to enjoy technology, not films

[retablo]

Originally Posted by blugojira

i find black bars unnoticeable when watching movies
does everyone have add or somthing?

Exactly. I'm watching the movie, not the bars.

[assydingo]

bars on the side is just something new to get used to for most of us

I'm quite fond of top and bottom bars these days, I almost miss them at times if they're not there

[monkeyjb1988]

Bars used to bother me until I learned how much picture gets cropped just to fill the screen. Now, if there aren't black bars when there should be, like the Wizard of Oz blu on a widescreen HDTV, I would raise holy ****.

[goofystitch]

Bars have never bothered me. Even when TVs were all fullscreen, I would buy widescreen VHS whenever possible because I wanted the original aspect ratio. The only time I'm ever bothered by black bars are when they aren't supposed to be there, such as a fullscreen DVD of a film that should be widescreen.

Although I do enjoy the Disney View feature on Pinocchio and Snow White that adds artwork to the borders, but not because it eliminates black bars. I just think it's neat.

[TheAlphaNerd]

Originally Posted by 42041

many people here seem to enjoy technology, not films

So true.

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by nycomet

The annoying black bars on the SIDES of the movie on these older titles should have that AWESOME feature we saw on Pinocchio: static artwork on the sides. It is SO EASY for the movie company's to include it as an optional feature.

In the case of Wizard of Oz, I would have liked to see various side panel artwork to match scenes in the film: clouds, poppies, the yellow brick road, the forest, the cornfield... anything but that plain black on the sides.

I also really enjoyed the art within the side borders on Pinocchio. Any time I watch that movie in a setting that is not optimized for movie watching — e.g. when it's not dark in the room — I choose the option for the artwork in the side bars. When we watch in the dark, I leave that option off. I wish all movies in the relatively square ratio would come with this option.

[Octavio]

Originally Posted by retablo

Can't wait for the people who champion the 21:9 TVs to become the norm to start complaining that close to half the TV is black screen when watching any movie pre-1954.

LMAO! Imagine how would look any of the silent films whose OAR is 1.20:1 in those screens (I.e. lots of Chaplin shorts were shot with that OAR)

Actually I've read already (in another forums) some people complaining for the black bars when watching a movie in Academy Ratio, even one of them dared to say that 1.33 movies SHOULD be modified to fit HDTV screens!

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by Octavio

LMAO! Imagine how would look any of the silent films whose OAR is 1.20:1 in those screens (I.e. lots of Chaplin shorts where shot with that OAR)

Actually I've read already (in another forums) some people complaining for the black bars when watching a movie in Academy Ratio, even one of them dared to say that 1.33 movies SHOULD be modified to fit HDTV screens!

Yeah, let's just chop off the actors' heads and such.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Originally Posted by Octavio

Actually I've read already (in another forums) some people complaining for the black bars when watching a movie in Academy Ratio, even one of them dared to say that 1.33 movies SHOULD be modified to fit HDTV screens!

I wouldn't mind that if that was the director's intention, like Stanley Kubrick did for his films. He shot them in Full Screen but had them cropped for movie theaters but open matted for home viewing.

[toef]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

I wouldn't mind that if that was the director's intention, like Stanley Kubrick did for his films. He shot them in Full Screen but had them cropped for movie theaters but open matted for home viewing.

Didn't James Cameron film Titanic in fullscreen? If so, I wonder what aspect ratio the BD will have.

[RiseDarthVader]

Titanic was shot in on Super35 for the intended AR of 2.35:1

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

I wouldn't mind that if that was the director's intention, like Stanley Kubrick did for his films. He shot them in Full Screen but had them cropped for movie theaters but open matted for home viewing.

Kubrick actually shot 99% of his films with a 1.37:1 negative aspect ratio with the intention of the film being exhibited in 1.85:1 widescreen.

The only film he shot specifically 2.35:1 widescreen was 2001: A Space Odyssey. When the BBC broadcasted this film on television, neither he nor his cinematographer were consulted in creating a "fullscreen" presentation. They completely butchered his film with the pan & scna process.

In response, Kubrick instructed his cinematographer to frame for 1.85:1 but protect the 1.33:1 framing. This way when the film is transferred to home video, the composition is not destroyed. It is altered but no picture image is lost.

When DVD became the home video format and widescreen televisions grew into popularity, Warner Brothers was finally able to present Kubrick's original vision for his films. There would be no need to expose the protected area going foward.

[scorsetinogilliam]

Originally Posted by 42041

many people here seem to enjoy technology, not films

simply the best thing i have read since the creation of this site, words that ring so true they should be canonized. people on here seem to only be excited about films because they are on blu ray, i have suspicions that many people wouldn't ever watch a great deal of these films if they were not now part of this wonderful new technology.
shame shame fellow film nerds

[moviemaker928]

I didn't mind the black bars on the side, just came on here just to make sure that they were supposed to be like that lol. Personally I've never seen a movie with the bars on the side, just top and bottom, threw me for a second but then I did a little research and went onto this forum and saw that it was correct.

[Mr. Joshua]

Just hit zoom on the remote....

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by wsciv123

Just hit zoom on the remote....

NEVER!

I also don't understand how people even notice black bars...... Turn out the lights, and watch the film already

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

NEVER!

I also don't understand how people even notice black bars...... Turn out the lights, and watch the film already

and calibrate the display

[Blu-Ron]

This had to have been a joke topic.

[richieb1971]

Calibrate your eyes, then calibrate your display. Then calibrate your seating position.. Calibrate your drinks and popcorn, calibrate your family and friends.

PRESS PLAY.

There, all calibrated.