Others will know more of the technical details, but I can assure you that the problem was at the theater and not with the film. I've had similar experiences before when it was obvious that a major movie studio hadn't released a film in such condition and yet there it was before my eyes. Blame the projectionist at your local McArtHouse... At 02:00 PM 11/22/97 -0500, you wrote: >I just saw The Ice Storm at a local Ann ARbor theater last night and >noticed A LOT of glaring problems with the boom microphone. It shows up >at the top of the frame in a couple scenes, and otherwise it seems that >the microphone has been masked out of a lot of scenes by masking WELL INTO >the upper part of the frame. In some of the later scenes, for example, >the screen at my theater was 3/4 to 1/3 black. > >ARG!!! This is a beautiful, thoughtfully directed and acted film. > >What's up? Did I see a bad print? Was my theater screwy? Or did this >somehow just get through the 20th Cent Fox gristmill looking like this? > >My sense is that it couldn't have been the projection situation, since the >masking changed *with* the cutting from shot to shot, sometimes a big >swatch of masking would cut to no masking at all. > >Does anyone have any info on this? And does anyone know if the reviews >of the film have mentioned this at all? I haven't been reading reviews >lately, but the ones of the film I've heard on the radio haven't mentioned >the problem-- > >Thanks, >Susan Crutchfield >University of Michigan > >---- >To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L >in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > > ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]