From: cstewart@npal.rn.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Question on UY2's master print
Date: 21 Nov 92 23:14:13 EDT
Organization: PalNet -- Indianapolis, Indiana

Ahhhh!
I thought that Lum had gotten so mad that she had accidently fried our
tape...II feel much better now...;)
  P.S. All the people at the IAC who watched Beautiful Dreamer simply thought
that the tape was wonderful. More on this in the next issue of Dream World. We
just can't keep it oi  -er- in the library.

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In article <1992Nov21.070607.22343@foretune.co.jp>,
trebor@foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
> gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan) writes:
> 
>>About 2/3 up the screen on the far right edge, intermitently an brown circle
>>appears that is approx 5-10% of the screen's width in diameter.  This appear
>>to be just like problems when a film is overheated (and sometimes melts) and
>>the film or negative is somehow overexposed.
> 
> No, these are normal.  They are Reel-change Marks, signals to the
> theatre projectionist that a reel of film is ending and he has to
> switch to the next reel.  They come in groups of two; the first one
> is "get ready" and the second one is "go!"  You'll notice that the
> scene cut after the second mark is kind of abrupt.
> 
> These days, most theatres use a "pancake" projection system where
> all the reels are spliced together and kept on a huge platter in
> a horzontal position; this way, you don't have to have a projectionist
> on duty during the film.  However, as some theatres don't do this,
> all films have these marks (watch for them in the theatre; once you
> know that they are there, they are easy to see).
> 
> When you watch a movie on TV, if you can see the marks, you know that
> you are getting the whole image, and that it hasn't been cropped.  We
> have been told by Kitty that all the UY Movies were filmed at 1.38 to 1
> (Academy ratio, almost identical to TV's 1.33 to 1), but they were
> _composed_ for 1.68 to 1 (VistaVision) for display in the theatre.
> This means that in the theatre they didn't show the top and bottom
> of the image you see on TV.
> 
> In fact, if you look closely at the videos of all of the UY Movies,
> you'll notice that they are very, very slightly letterboxed; there
> is a thin black band at the top and bottom.  This is the correction
> between 1.38 to 1 and 1.33 to 1.  However, on most TV's you don't
> see this, because most TV's chop off a bit of the top and bottom of
> the screen.
> 
> Curiously, UY1:Only You doesn't have the reel-change marks.  We have
> been told that it is also "Photographed at 1.33 to 1, composed for
> 1.66 to 1," but we are in the process of double-checking how the
> video transfer was done to determine whether (a) the marks were
> removed in the studio or (b) the image was cropped.  If the latter,
> if and when we do a LD release, we will retransfer the film at
> the appropriate aspect ratio.
> 
>>Robert, what were the original films mastered to, and did you have those
>>mastered onto D@ or did you work with say the original negatives in some 
>>way?
> 
> The original films were mastered onto 1", then transferred to D2 for
> the current archives.  We subtitled D2 -> Computer -> D2.  We don't
> work with negatives unless (as mentioned above) we have to; a new
> transfer is going to run around $4k, by the way.
> -- 
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