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Author Topic: Horizontal green stripes flashing at top and bottom of screen. What are they??? Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-31-2003 11:34 AM                    I believe Peter Pan is a Super 35 film (despite the Filmed in Panavision credit which would normally denote an anamorphic film but is wrong more often than correct--Super 35, 1.85, or any non anamorphic film ought to simply have an equipment credit, not a process name). There is a credit for a digital intermediate. There are indeed plenty of negative splices but not on every scene change like on a true scope film. Apparently they did do a lot of assembly of individual shots after the digital blowup. Somewhat unusual. I suppose there is always a chance it really was anamorphic but it looked too grainy for that. True anamorphic via digital intermediate doesn't look as sharp as a normal straight print but would be sharper than this was.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-31-2003 12:49 PM                     quote: Paul, I think Frank was not referring to pan-and-scan, but to the scanning (meaning digitizing) Christian, I was actually quoting Gordon, not Frank. And I KNOW he wasn't referring to pan and scan. That was a reference I added to the discussion in terms of transfer to home video full screen versions. I do believe, in the context of the full discussion, however, he was referring to the process of taking part of the full apeture frame for cropping to scope and then squeezing it for theatrical release. I could be wrong, but I dont think he was referring to digitizing the image.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 12-31-2003 01:01 PM                     Ooops, I jumped between pages and looked at Franks post above yours and got the names mixed up... Now after reading Gordon's explanation again, I still think he means the process of scanning a 2.39 area out of the S-35 full frame and doing the squeeze digital instead of going trhough optical printing. Maybe Gordon could answer this?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-31-2003 01:15 PM                     In some cases a squeeze is introduced in the digital domain in others it is done opticaly Alot depends on the proprietary system being used and that is often kept very secret  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-31-2003 04:36 PM                     quote: I believe Peter Pan is a Super 35 film It sure looked anamorphic to me.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-31-2003 05:23 PM                     American Cinematographer covers PETER PAN in their January, 2004 magazine. Anyone have a copy to check if anamorphic or SUPER 35, or possibly both? (I think there have been "hybrids" before).  |  IP: Logged Dominic Case Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Sydney NSW Australia Registered: Aug 2003 posted 01-05-2004 06:40 PM                       Peter Pan was shot by Don McAlpine in Panavision 2.40:1 using a Panaflex Millenium camera and Primo lenses. The film was shot in Queensland (Australia) and processed at Atlab. Digital effects were done by ILM and others, and then there was a digital intermediate grade at Efilm. If the film was assembled (neg-matched) prior to the digital grade, then there would be negative splices at normal cuts, but not in the middle of digital effects sequences. Don explains his preference to shoot an anamorphic negative in American Cinematographer (Jan 04) or in Kodak's InCamera magazine online at http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2004/peterpanP.shtml#p  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-05-2004 11:31 PM                    Ah...interesting. Digital intermediate and 500 speed film.  |  IP: Logged

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