Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: North by Northwest (1959)

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Posted by Tao Yue (Member # 836) on 04-30-2003, 09:13 PM:

North by Northwest (1959)

8 reels
flat 1.66:1
mono
Warner Brothers Archives (originally an MGM production)

Most of the film is hard-matted to 1.5:1 (VistaVision camera aperture), process shots are hard-matted to 1.66:1.
On Kodak Eastman EXR color print film. Edges say "KODAK 386 ## 1997" where ## varies by reel, hence presumably a 1997 print. Color saturation is awful like the video (not like the DVD, which was heavily processed digitally). But print is otherwise quite nice.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 05-01-2003, 12:22 AM:

The aspect ration of NxNW is open for debate. Most people prefer to run it at 1.85 (which makes sense, as the other major Paramount VistaVision titles are also 1.85).