David Ezell notes: > Perhaps the most painful of all the musical moments is > the Act One finale from THE KING AND I (where the gag > is that Anna cannot have her head higher than the > King). The video camera pans to Anna, cuts to the > King, back and forth. Poor home viewers never get to > see the visual joke as Yul Brenner slides slowly into > a full split, and Anna struggles to keep up with him. Another example of pan-and-scan loss is REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. See, for example, the opening scene in the police station. Ray uses both wide-screen and depth of staging to link Dean, Wood, and Mineo before any of them has spoken a word to the other. The impact is totally lost in the pan-and-scan version. In a different way, the impact of the spatial isolation and loneliness in 2001 is diluted considerably in non-wide-screen editions. Don Larsson ---------------------- Donald Larsson Minnesota State U, Mankato [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html