Video Fishing With John was shot for television with a handheld camera, so the image is full frame, but that's the intended ratio, so relax. As I said, the image is handheld camera footage, so it's jumpy and not film like in appearance. It basically looks like a home movie, and that seems to be exactly what Lurie wanted. Aside from the obvious flaws inherent with the medium, the transfer looks great. Colors are rich, but don't have the same sharpness of a polished film, but still, the colors look very good.
Black level varies greatly, although correct most of the time.
Usually the image is very bright, so not many shadow areas occur. A fine transfer for the materials. Audio Again, the audio is basically dialogue, which can be very quiet or very loud, depending on how close to the camera they were. Usually you can hear everything though, and that's all you can ask for with this disc. The music, by John Lurie, is downright bizarre at times, and it sounds very good here.