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Topic: Letterboxing scope trailers for flat
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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 07-09-2001 06:00 PM
Ok maybe I'm the crazy one here, but someone please tell me this thread isn't going to become a "HEY, I JUST SAW A 1.85 TRAILER THAT WAS LETTERBOXED!!!" That would just about have to make this thread the most lame in the entire history of these forums.I mean come on, whoopie shit. What's the big deal? I've seen a 2.39 trailer that was matted for FLAT! Wow. Jeepers! I'm about to have an accident in my pants from all of this excitement.  P.S. I once even saw a theater that had seats that ROCKED! Supposedly there is even a theater somewhere in town that has SOUND to go WITH THE PICTURE! Whoooooo!!!
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Evans A Criswell
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Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 07-09-2001 08:38 PM
I think the practice of letterboxing 1.85:1 trailers for scope movies is a great idea, because if the theatre staff cares at all, they'll want to make sure their flat framing is perfect, since the slightest error will be painfully noticeable when the letterboxed trailer runs.I've seen several such letterboxed trailers out of frame so much that there was no black at the bottom with a huge black band on top. Nail those careless operators! I hope the trend continues, if for that reason only.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
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Greg Anderson
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 766
From: Ogden Valley, Utah
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-09-2001 09:09 PM
It's up to Brad, of course, but is it really proper to close a thread just because it's not exciting enough?I remember how, in the early 1980s, attached trailers on stereo films were in stereo. Yet the same trailers, if they were sent individually, would be mono. The first time I noticed a non-attached trailer with stereo sound (in a 35mm version) it was Amadeus, which was also a noteworthy trailer because in the credits section it specifically mentioned 70mm. In 1984, I was pretty excited about that trailer (Okay... so shoot me for being boring, but I was less than a mile from the Southern California beaches yet I worked in a dark room by myself in the summer). Anyhow... I can understand why this thread was started because, perhaps, John had never noticed a letterboxed trailer until recently and he wondered how old this trend was. So...
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