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TServo2049
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Info Wanted: Question about "Faces" VHS subtitles
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27-Jun-2012, 6:10 PM

Ghostbusters was one of my first exposures to different cropping in different transfers. In the establishing shot of Weaver Hall, the old RCA/Columbia transfer cropped everything but the sign, while the 90s release cropped the sign out completely. In the 90s, the elevator shot was cropped through back-and-forth cutting between Ray/Egon and Venkman, but the original transfer actually showed that scene squeezed!

As we've pointed out, in the standard, non-time-compressed pre-THX transfer of ANH, when Luke says "They're sandpeople all right, I can see one of them now," said Tusken Raider is completely out of frame.

As I said in another thread, even though old P&S transfers of the trilogy generally have more resolution/detail than the old widescreen transfers, and even though I think the P&S laserdiscs should be preserved (including the PAL ones), make no mistake: I absolutely loathe P&S. To paraphrase the Joker, I'm glad it's dead (well, almost dead, at least).

Nien Nunb, Annie has aired on HDTV in widescreen in the past, I'm sure there must be an HD rip out there somewhere. If not, you can just import the UK DVD.

With the upcoming Broadway revival, I'm sure the film has a Blu-ray release in its future.