>Can anybody suggest why so many recent television commercials are
>being shot and shown in a letterbox format?  liz weis, brooklyn college
>film dept.
 
Re: above.  Might it have something to do with the number of commercials
shown in movie theatres where the standard aspect ratio is 1.85, making it
cheaper to produce for theatres and then letter-box for TV than vice versa?
 Just a thought.
 
DD
 
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