Mavimao said:
Space Kaijuu said:
Ah, Jurassic Park and its weird combo of open-matte and hard-matted scenes.
It was actually common practice for films to have their special effects shots hard-matted. Less area to work with = less work to do.
That's not why. It's because VFX were usually done in VistaVision, with a wider AR. For the final negative, they were reduced to hard-matted 4-perf.