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Post #468980

Author
msycamore
Parent topic
THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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Date created
31-Jan-2011, 10:27 AM

erri_wan said:

msycamore about changing the format, I was thinking what's gonna happen to the screens in Italian? Those that read "Radiation overload" or those computer screens.

Nothing, as I am just correcting the wrong aspect ratio on the intro/titles and end titles, there isn't anything wrong with the aspect ratio on the actual main feature, it was just broadcasted in pan & scan, which means that they cropped the picture to fit the 4:3 TV-screen.

Sometimes they simply crop both sides of the picture to fit the 4:3 TV-screen, and sometimes they make it pan & scan, which means that they move the 1.33:1 image inside the 2.35:1 picture, so they have more option to what they want to be in focus, that's why you have a pan inside the frame sometimes as seen here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/THX-1138-preservations/post/445295/#TopicPost445295

Here's a few wiki articles that describes these different video formats much better than I did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterbox