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Re: aspect ratios of tv commercials
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David Desser <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Dec 1994 10:39:42 -0600
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>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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