On Mon, 13 Jun 1994 12:33:03 -0500 Richard J. Leskosky said: >What about the great opening of THE ROAD WARRIOR? Academy ratio news clips >show how civilization falls and Max becomes mad, and then the image >explodes into scope with the camera behind the wheel (or on the front end?) >of a speeding vehicle. Or, similarly, the break in WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (Frank Tashlin, 1957) where Rock Hunter (Tony Randall) speaks directly to the audience--in CinemaScope and color. Then the screen is shrunk to a small rectangle (that Rock has to duck to get inside) and goes black and white. Rock explains that it's to make television viewers seem more at home. 'Course, within a few years,20thCentury-Fox, the producers of WSSRH? would devise pan-and-scan so they could sell their movies to TV-- resulting in compositions quite similar to the one they satirize. Ah, irony, thy name is Hollywood! ---------- Average number of sesame seeds on a Big Mac: 178. ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |