Originally posted by: SW
If we can view Gone with the wind at 16;9 i think ! Then why not Star Wars ?
You don't want to see GWTW in 16:9 - it would require the image to be cropped. Check out this link to see what happened when they tried to do just that:
Originally posted by: Mike O
Wasn't Gone With the Wind filmed in the Academy Ratio of 1.33:1 of 1.37:1, fullscreen? Did widescreen exist back then?
If we can view Gone with the wind at 16;9 i think ! Then why not Star Wars ?
You don't want to see GWTW in 16:9 - it would require the image to be cropped. Check out this link to see what happened when they tried to do just that:
Originally posted by: SilverWook
Imagine the outcry if the only version of Gone With the Wind the public could ever see again was this!
Imagine the outcry if the only version of Gone With the Wind the public could ever see again was this!
Originally posted by: Mike O
Wasn't Gone With the Wind filmed in the Academy Ratio of 1.33:1 of 1.37:1, fullscreen? Did widescreen exist back then?
Yeah, GWTW was shot in full-frame, as was Casablanca, The Wizard of OZ, etc. If it was shot in academy ratio, that's how it should be seen.
There was one widescreen film shot in the 1920s- an early John Wayne film, but I think it was seen as just a novelty at that time .