Let me add a vast assortment of musicals (Gigi, My Fair Lady, Hello Dolly,

and The Music Man, just to name a few) where dance numbers are abysmally

cropped and parts of songs are often sung by offscreen voices (voices that

become embodied in the letterboxed versions).



Ed



In a message dated 5/10/00 9:47:48 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:



>In _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home_, Spock, Kirk, and Taylor cannot be

>shown in the same shot in the front of the truck in pan and scan.  In

>_Dark City_, The table cannot be seen extending in pan and scan.  In

>_Heart and Souls_ the four spirits cannot be seen in the same shot near

>the beginning, flying toward Thomas.  In _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_,

>Wise's immensity compositions are destroyed because there is not a human

>in every shot, as in the widescreen version.  These arer examples I can

>think of odd the top of my head.  I know a number of scenes in _Dune_

>don't make any sense in pan and scan, and there is a scene in Jun Fukuda's

>_The War in Space_ (1977), that has a conversation shot from under a glass

>table.  In pan and scan (the only way it is available in the U.S., where

>it was released directly to television), all we can see are the noses of

>Ryo Ikebe and Kensaky Morita, as they have their conversation.  I once

>gave a speech on letterboxing and used this shot as an example of just

>how

>damaging pan and scan can be.



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