Darryl Wiggers writes:

>If you assume, from my argument, that because Kubrick had a preference for
>the 1.33:1 ratio that ALL filmmakers of his era (and before) should have
>felt the same way -- of course not. And I think I made it clear that even
>Kubrick saw the advantages of the wide-screen when he made 2001 (2.20.1
>ratio) and, hence, made an exception.

Far from assuming that, I get the impression that most prominent
film-makers with this period ranged from experimenting with widescreen
(even if, like Fritz Lang, they found it a negative experience) to
positively embracing it.  It just struck me as a side-issue, reading your
post, that Hitchcock never went wider than VistaVision.  Having now looked
this up, it seems that 1:1.66 was his preferred ratio during the latter
stages of his career (e.g. Psycho, The Birds, Marnie).

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