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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 13, 2009, 10:35 PM:
How did they get the description "Letterboxing" describing a widescreen film?
Answer to be found in tommorows forum!
(unless, of course, someone answers it before I get back on!)
Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on October 13, 2009, 11:31 PM:
I know I heard it looks like the mail delivery slot in your house front door.....
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 14, 2009, 08:20 AM:
RIGHT YOU ARE, CHIP!
A technician in the prep foir release onto VHS ands laserdisc, (back in the early 80's) was originally a postal worker in first career, and he said that it looked like looking through a mail slot.
It was just as simple as that. Thanks for the imput, Chip.
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