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Posted by Michael Goucher (Member # 199) on 06-20-2001, 10:18 PM:

20th Century Fox Feature Film
Reels = 5
A/R = 2.35:1 Anamorphic "Scope"
Format = SRD, DTS, SR Analog
Trailers = (For FOX: "Planet of the Apes") other studio product trailers unknown to me at this time.
Rating: PG
Synopsis: Eddie Murphy reprises his popular role as the Doctor Doolittle who talks to, and hears, animals. In this adventure he tries to save a forest from logging and development by becoming a court-appointed catalyst for re-acclimating a trained "dancing bear" into his natural habitat. Very funny and great for pre-teen kids.

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-21-2001, 07:50 AM:

Scope?

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 06-21-2001, 02:16 PM:

"Scope" as in CinemaScope, the original version of 2X anamorphic format introduced by 20th Century Fox in 1953 with "The Robe". It has become the generic term used for any 35mm 2X anamorphic process, including Panavision:
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/

Standard SMPTE 195 specifies the projectable image area of "Style B" Theatrical release prints with an anamorphic image as 0.825 x 0.690 inches (20.96 x 17.53 mm). With a 2X horizontal magnification, this produces an aspect ratio of 2.39:1 on the screen.

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Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 06-21-2001, 02:55 PM:

Actually, I think he asked "Scope?" because the first Dr. Dolittle (June 1998) was flat, and is surprised by Dr. Dolittle 2 being scope. I'm surprised at it myself. imdb.com says flat for Dr. Dolittle 2. Someone please confirm one way or the other.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 06-22-2001, 08:16 AM:

It was shot in super 35- I can tell by looking at the flat trailers for this.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 06-22-2001, 10:50 PM:

It's scope. Also, SR-D and DTS only. No SDDS. Did anyone else _not_ get DTS disks for this?

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-23-2001, 08:29 AM:

lol...yes I was just suprised that it would be in scope

the first was flat.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 06-23-2001, 01:41 PM:

Micheal Brown: Apologies for thinking you needed a definition of "scope". I wasn't sure if the same term was used in the UK.