Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Come Hither Aroung the Widescreen Tennis Court


The process of shooting flat screen to wide screen is somewhat is implemented and adapted like this. The motion picture is shot, then goes through a wide lens, to a square piece of 35 mm filter and stretches it back on 2.40:1 aspect ratio. It used to be wider back in the Ben Herr day’s with a 2.76:1 ratio, and the mid 50’s being even wider. It twas wider 2.55:1 rebel without a cause and films from that era which were some of the widest (Oklahoma, The king and I, Carousel). That’s why the “Apocalypse Now” on home video was so wide. ADD Moguls come hither I got the site for you! Let’s go play tennis. Glen Hansard sings some the songs with Markéta Irglová on the soundtrack from the movie “Once” I heard it got a great review. In the preview of the movie I saw a guy is out in the street playing “The Minstrel”, Markéta comes up right up through the crowd and says (by the way she is Czech) who did you right that song for? Your girlfriend?, he replied, yes, she said, is she dead, he says, no she’s gone. It looks like a bitter heart wrenching intense movie. Once I go to Phil and see this I will know more. Another scene shows them in a Sam Ash musictype store singing playing guitar and piano together. The guy play’s one song (When your mind is made up) “broken hearted Hoover fixer sucker guy.” I guess he’s a vacuum repair man.

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