Why was widescreen ever created in the first place?
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Ben Sliker
Pain In The Ass 2.0
movies always had "gimmicks" to differentiate themselves from other mediums. One of the earliest tries at widescreen was for the movie "Napoleon" in 1927 and they called it polyvision. They stacked three cameras to shoot it for widescreen, but then the director also went crazy and used different angles too. That means sometimes when you are watching it, there were 3 4:3 screens, each with a different angle of the action. The aspect ratio is like 4:1 or something ridiculous like that.
Coolest shot i remember from film class was three different angles of french soldiers marching, the left screen and right screens were tinted red and blue respectively, so you were literally looking at a french flag as you were watching!
Coolest shot i remember from film class was three different angles of french soldiers marching, the left screen and right screens were tinted red and blue respectively, so you were literally looking at a french flag as you were watching!
Prairieboy said:
I think this is similar to James Cameron's push for 3d is another way of dealing with DVD and giant HD TV's cutting into films theatrical grosses.
I know you're right, and that seems goofy to me
Have the boffo cinescope widescreen stadium seating premiere and based on those reviews and word of mouth, sell more hidef laser discs or whatever they come out with to sell or rent to the hidef market.
It's a little different than when folks thought the corner video store would be the death of going out to the theatre because back then it was a no surround sound 4:3 crappt TV analog tape situation at home, and now there is widescreen surround sound etc. .... but not at my house, not for a while at least.
But as long as the studio is making $ off the theatrical release and the dvd rental / sales, even as hi def grows in the market it doesn't seem like much reason to panic ... there's more of a chance that hidef home theatre could kill movies now ... but it doesn't seem likely to me.
Have the boffo cinescope widescreen stadium seating premiere and based on those reviews and word of mouth, sell more hidef laser discs or whatever they come out with to sell or rent to the hidef market.
It's a little different than when folks thought the corner video store would be the death of going out to the theatre because back then it was a no surround sound 4:3 crappt TV analog tape situation at home, and now there is widescreen surround sound etc. .... but not at my house, not for a while at least.
But as long as the studio is making $ off the theatrical release and the dvd rental / sales, even as hi def grows in the market it doesn't seem like much reason to panic ... there's more of a chance that hidef home theatre could kill movies now ... but it doesn't seem likely to me.
BLUESPIDER
DVXuser Ninja
This is why we have widescreen!
I loved that movie.
futureman
Active member
Another reason for the aspect ratio of motion pictures becoming wider would be film quality and lens sharpness. With early tv and film the quality was so bad that fascial expressions could not be seen unless, the actors head occupied almost the entire frame, 4:3 allows a for a portrait with just enough background to give the hunt of location. As quality gets better, you can show more background while still containing a sharp subject.
