Cropping the Original Trilogy : 35mm vs dvd (gout) — Page 5

ok,

this is a low resolution preview

of what its like watching the uncropped

version at home..

they'll be more coming, and the camera

will also be more stable then..

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Erikstormtrooper said:

Harmy said:

Well, there isn't much more left to say, short of confirming that the 2004 master is cropped less than the GOUT but still there is some cropping compared to all the information available on a 35mm print. I totally understand it being cropped; most damage usually appears on the edges of prints and even on the print, the edge of the image isn't always exactly the same, so you need to leave some space for that. What I absolutely don't understand is why on earth is every shot in every transfer cropped differently? Why would they do that? I'd understand every reel having slightly different cropping but why every shot? And the amount of cropping is so small that I don't buy that it's to keep the action in the centre. Also if they just cropped by the same amount on all sides, they'd keep the originally intended centre, which should be most desirable with this minute amount of cropping.

I can't speculate about the scene-to-scene cropping. That really is confusing too.

But for the overall cropping, maybe the technology of the time made it difficult to capture the whole frame. Remember that the blu-ray of Phantom Menace has more picture information that the previous version; this was supposedly due to some technological limitation in the past.

 What kind of limitation would have existed in 1999 that would have been solved in 2011? Unless it was just for transferring Phantom Menace to video. Was this greater picture supposed to be just compared to the past dvd and widescreen vhs/laserdisc or to the actual showing of the movie in theaters?

So this gives me another question. Is the GOUT cropped differently at all from the 1993 laserdisc? Or the 1995 widescreen vhs/laserdisc? 

As strange as some of the method and pattern to the cropping is, it would be even weirder to have the framing different in something that was the same source.