skyjedi2005 said:Just wondering since the Phantom Menace was shot on 35mm motion picture film at a 2:35:1 anamorphic cinemascope aspect ratio. There should be lots of fine detail and film grain.
*sigh* I wish the film industry would drop that misnomer, already. This is nothing against you, SkyJedi, this is just a personal rant of mine:
From 1957 to 1970, the SMPTE standard for 35mm anamorphic widescreen cameras yielded an aspect ratio of ~2.347:1, or ~2.35:1, depending on how you round it. From 1970 to 1993, this was changed to a standard that yielded an aspect ratio of ~2.394:1. A slight alteration in 1993 changed it to ~2.391:1. The 1993 change is negligible (both it and the previous standard come to ~2.39:1 when rounded to the hundredths), but the two-demical-place rounding system makes the "2.35:1" title completely inaccurate. Why DVD cases use this number for new films when a movie hasn't been made in that aspect ratio for almost 40 years is beyond me. I guess it's like the "Statue of the Three Lies" at Harvard: everybody's either too lazy or too proud to fix it.
In short, the OT and TPM were shot in a 2.39:1 AR (although the former is about an eighth of a percent longer than the latter). As for AotC and RotS, I'm not sure what the aperture for HD cameras are (is it the same as for 35mm cameras or not?), and God knows what numbers they punched in to get CW's aspect ratio.