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Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]>
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Just another note to add to this interesting discussion.
 
It's not just boom mikes.  If you watch the videotape of NORTH BY
NORTHWEST on a video projector, or if the masking on a 16mm. flat print
isn't quite right, you'll see the tops of the cutaway taxicabs in New
York and the cycloramas used for background in several scenes (eg., the
reunion scene near Mt. Rushmore).  Then compare the letterboxed
laserdisc version.  It's a useful classroom example!
 
Don Larsson
 
 
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:45:02 +0000 Leo Enticknap
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
> On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:11:03 -0400 (EDT) [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > is it naive to think that the frame on
> > the film itself could or should contain a clean image so that no masking
 would
> > be necessary?
>
> A certain amount of masking is used in all projection.  Even 'scope, which has
> the smallest blank frame area of any 35mm format, has to be projected through
 an
> aperture plate or else you would see the frame line.  The question is of how
> much masking to apply.  Unless you want to abandon the principle of 35mm,
> vertical motion, 4-perf pulldown (as in Techniscope, in which the camera has
> only a two-perf motion, resulting in a frame ratio of about 1:2.6), then the
> wider the picture the greater the frame area which has to be masked off.
 
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Donald Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
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