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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-02-2004 04:02 PM                    I show films in the way the filmmaker, studio or other competent authority intends them to be shown...or as best as I can ascertain. quote: Joe Redifer I have seen quite a few films (like Aladdin, Nightmare Before Christmas) come out that were 1.66 or something retarded like that. Just because you showed them in 1.85 since you didn't have a 1.66 aperture and lens doesn't make the movie a 1.85 movie. Of course I have 1.66 lenses & plates. Don't make me laugh. This is a professional screening room so of course we do. 1.37 too. If that is the optimum way to see any of the films you cite that is easily accomplished. Native Super 35 too. You need to learn the lesson that what happens on video has little relation to what is on the film and it's inappropriate to make any judgements based on what you see on a tape or DVD. The fact that that shot or others may appear full frame on video doesn't mean the entire transfer was done full height. Maybe it was; maybe it wasn't. Maybe another shot has a mike boom in frame and the video tranferrist zoomed in and maybe a bit to the left. Maybe another was shot with a camera with a reduced height aperture. Maybe their artistic choice was to stay in tight like with 1.85 projection but going out to full heigh where the shot composition warrants seeing the full width. The point is you don't know unless you screen the print full frame in its entirety while comparing with what was transferred. It's foolish to make any statement about what a film is supposed to be based on video. I can tell you that after running dailies on dozens of 1.85 features only in one instance did anyone ask to see something full frame and that was just an editor who was somewhat confused. That is a pretty good indication that only what's in the 1.85 frame really matters although as I said, video can and will do whatever it wants.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-02-2004 04:44 PM                        My video comment was basically to make the point that I don't think there is much in the way of obstructive information that would be cropped out in 1.85 like boom mics. But like you said, you never know... the movie could have been intended to be 1.81 or 1.47 or something retarded. 1.85 and anything narrower should be completely eliminated. Everything should be scope. That way the full frame is used, you don't have to worry about incompetant framing errors that will reveal boom mikes, etc. I don't even know why they shoot full-frame when making a flat movie when they could just shoot 3-perf and use less film and get comparable results. I mean flat's gonna suck anyway, and shooting full frame certainly won't help. Obviously the 3-perf would be transferred to 4-perf for theaters with giant frame lines. This will also help eliminate incompetant framing errors, because way too many people think that if they can't see a frameline, then it MUST be in frame.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-02-2004 04:52 PM                    If everything goes DI you might get your wish. But otherwise shooting 3-perf comes at the cost of making the whole show an optical.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-02-2004 04:55 PM                        Huh? Acronyms should be against forum rules (Pytlak would have to stop posting, AFAIK). Explain "optical" in a non-elitist fashion, please.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-02-2004 05:35 PM                  Yawn... you 2 should get a room. Back to the premise of this thread:  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-02-2004 05:52 PM                         |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-02-2004 06:40 PM                    Um.........no. But thanks for the offer.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-02-2004 08:29 PM                       Joe... read his lips. The kid's saying "big fart", as in, you're a Big Fart!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-02-2004 08:47 PM                  Actually I think he's saying: "Fuck You Joe! Go get a real girl and leave my tender young ass alone"  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-03-2004 12:55 PM                    From about 4 years ago. We're in downtown Chicago, just north of the river, looking west under the Merchandise Mart, which, it is claimed, is the largest commercial building in the world. That bridge, which allows forklifts etc. to cross, lifts out of the way to allow the passage of trains. The railroad line is a spur which comes off the leads of the former C&NW passenger station, crosses the North Branch of the river on a drawbridge, then continues east under the Apparel Center, Merchandise Mart and under or behind various other buildings just north of the river to reach the Sun Times / Daily News Building. That's the same building currently being razed to make way for a new Trump tower. Until printing operations were moved to a new plant in the last few years the rail line brought carloads of newsprint to the paper. It ended just about under the landmark Wrigley Building. It used to serve the Chicago Tribune just across the street until they built a new printing plant farther west. In the past the line continued all the way east out onto Navy Pier (now a tourist attraction). In 1975 the Freedom Train, touring the country with exhibits for the US Bicentennial, was displayed out on the pier. (The steam locomotive pulling the train couldn't make the sharp curves and didn't get all the way out to the pier.)  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-03-2004 05:43 PM                     Since we've been seeing some cool vintage electronic devices, I'd like to show everyone my new radio - 1940 Zenith Long Distance. 8s463 8 tube in a 5808 chassis. The cabinet is in original condition. The radio itself needed nothing more than a line cord, new capacitors and a dial cord.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-03-2004 06:18 PM                  Whew Sean! That's a beauty! Perfect cabinet, black dial, and a "Magic Eye"... I bet it even has a "Wave Magnet"! You're very lucky to find that great radio in that condition.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-03-2004 07:14 PM                       Phil, I have a magic eye, too!  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 12-04-2004 03:16 AM                     Phil, That view from your house is the best!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-08-2004 05:44 PM                  Thanks Danny!:  |  IP: Logged

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