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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. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu