At the risk of being Aesthetically Incorrect (a varient no doubt on politically incorrect), I think some of the Ted Turner bashing here is a bit unfair. TRUE, Turner is the man behind colorization and may justly be criticized. My feeling about colorization is that it is an excellent technology inappropriately applied. Think what that technology could do towards restoring fading color prints rather than overlaying color onto black and white prints. But, I think TNT makes many authetic contributions to film culture. It has brought back to television many prints which were previously available only in archives. I have looked closely at early 30s films which I studied at archives while doing my forthcoming book on early sound comedy and I have never found any deletions from them when they are aired on TNT, unlike almost any other station I can consider. He has even for a while had a late night program called Film School which focused on films, such as BABYFACE or BLONDE VENUS which were chosen, presumedly, because of their importance in current debates within our discipline. There is someone or someones in Turner's operation who respects film and film scholarship, which is surprising given all the flack he has received from us over colorization, which, knowing Turner, would probably have been much more short-lived if we hadn't tried to bully him into submission. So, given that history, I am not at all surprised to learn that his operation is taking the lead on letterboxing. --Henry Jenkins, MIT