EJones216 said:

As for the "Godfather" question earlier on this thread, American Cinematographer has an article on the restoration, complete with frame grabs of entire negative frames. http://www.ascmag.com/magazine_dynamic/May2008/PostFocus/page1.php

So it can be confirmed that, like most 35mm productions, the entire frame was exposed. Including the generous amount of headroom on top, and the little strip of dead space on the left to be masked and occupied by the soundtrack. I still wouldn't expect anything other than a 16x9 DVD set.

thanks for the link to that awesome article...

i wish people understood what it takes to restore a film, instead of just blindly asking why company XYZ can't

just restore film ABC..................................................i really appreciate all the attention to detail, and feel it really is a lost art..

some specs for people..

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The project stayed at 4K throughout the restoration, and Harris says this capability was key to the team’s success. “Paramount didn’t wait to do this work because they didn’t want to invest in it,” he says. “What was necessary was the ability to work in true 4K resolution; anything they might have tried on the digital side before that would have been a waste of time.”

Yarbrough estimates that the digital files for the Godfather trilogy required 160 terabytes of storage space. (By comparison, the final scans for a 4K DI of a 100-minute feature require about 8 terabytes.)

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anyways, a very good read..

later

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