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There's quite a few in many different technologies. You can check out
"Wide-Screen Movies" by Carr and Hayes.

However, just to name a few off the top of my head:

Napoleon (1927)
Chang (1927)*
Old Ironsides (1927)*
The Mystery of Picasso (1955)

*though, to be honest, this wasn't really a ratio change as was a size of
screen change.

And of course, Frank Tashlin played with this in one or two of his films in
the 1950s.

Dennis
Milestone Film & Video


In a message dated 5/9/00 6:15:39 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< "GalaxyQuest" is in about a 1.85 aspect ratio for the first 20 or so
minutes before changing to a full widescreen ratio.  Can anybody think of
other films that also mixed ratios?  Not counting ones where it's motivated
by something like a video monitor.

(If you didn't see "GalaxyQuest" theatrically then you'll miss this since
the studio decided it would be too confusing for home viewing so the tape
and DVD are both one ratio throughout.)

LT >>



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