How Do You Know If A Movie Was Filmed In Full Screen Or Widescreen?
Posted on: September 29, 20093 comments so far (is that a lot?)
Everybody says that we can only find movies in fullscreen in old movies(from 1940’s, for example). I have a full screen movie in DVD that was made in 1997. Was it really filmed in 4:3? Is there a way to be sure?
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September 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Because some DVDs get released in widescreen AND fullscreen. Nowadays people have two kinds of TVs, the old square ones and the newer wide ones, but the movies that are “fullscreen” have part of the picture cut off. Obviously if you ever go to the theater you can see that the movies are actually filmed in a wide format and then get cut down for TV or DVD later on.
This is for modern movies (as well as 1997). In the past there were several different aspect ratios used in different eras and in different countries! Like you said 4:3 was used before TV arrived, and then the movies switched to wider screens to compete with television. Now that TVs are wide, you will see movies try out new things like 3d to draw people out of their homes.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
All movies are filmed in widescreen format for the theatrical version. Televisions (before LCD’s and plasmas) were box shaped so therefore everything was condensed to fit that screen. If you notice, there is a little disclaimer at the beginning of most every VHS tape that says something to the nature of, “This film has been modified to fit your screen.”
Your dvd from ‘97 was probably just an early released version of the film before most people cared if they had a widescreen format dvd.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Nothing is ever filmed in fullscreen (except for 2001 Space Odyssey and some art films from the 70s)