At 08:47 09-06-00 -0400, you wrote: Re. EYES WIDE SHUT >film). Does anyone know if projectionists were given instructions to show it >at 1:66? >(My experience has been that many theatres aren't even capable of projecting >anything except 1:85 and 2:35...) >R. Hunt There was a note in one of the cans instructing projectionists to show it in 1:1.85 (in the UK at least). You're right - very few cinemas can show anything except 1:1.85 and 'scope. That is why FANTASIA 2000 was cropped from the Imax format for a general release in 1:1.85, and why the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence was optically reduced to 1:1.33 within a 1:1.85 hard matte. L ------------------------------------ Leo Enticknap Technical Manager City Screen Cinemas (York) Ltd.. 13-17 Coney St., York YO1 9QL. United Kingdom Telephone: 01904 612940 (work); 01904 625823 (home); 07710 417383 (mobile) e-mail: [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite