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Topic: Another rookie question
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Maurizio Di Cintio
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 977
From: Ortona, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted January 01, 2014 06:04 PM
I may be wrong on this but the term could also imply that a film which was originally shot in 'scope, has been printed "flat", that is a whole 1:33 SUper 8 frame is filled with a de-squeezed image: this way you don't need an "A" lens to screen that specific print, but you must be aware that almost as much as is in the frame, is lost outside: "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" is a good example: sometimes the printing features a panning movement inside the orginal 'scope frame to keep everything relevant in the picture which otherwise would be lost. There are even cuts not on the original, so that the image jumps from one area to the other without panning. Personally I think this is somewhat annoying to purists. Also there are scope films printed with letterbox, i.e. black bars top and bottom: again no need for an anamorphic attachment, no image loss, but the drawback in this case is a lot of the image area is wasted with the bars and in order to achieve as big a screen image as with a regular 'scope print, you need a bigger magnification resulting in coarser grain.
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Maurizio
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