tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post1660199023015268858..comments2023-11-03T11:37:13.579-04:00Comments on Something Old, Nothing New: Hassan (Would Have Gotten) Chop[ped]!Jaime J. Weinmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-34144836171108890632010-10-21T15:43:50.340-04:002010-10-21T15:43:50.340-04:00Renal is the perfect first thing to give back. Al...Renal is the perfect first thing to give back. All old, never going to matter.<br />Young people are trash. Rather be hooked up and getting the checks.<br />It's all about money. "Curing" kidney disease is the perfect first step.<br />The last, of course, will be breast cancer. Breast cancer has gotten more than one woman down on her knees praying hard..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-31101938853434686792010-08-23T23:01:26.943-04:002010-08-23T23:01:26.943-04:00I agree the post-56 cartoons do seem to work harde...I agree the post-56 cartoons do seem to work harder to keep the characters in the area that wouldn't be cropped, though I think part of it may have been the transfers of the 1954-56 shorts weren't cropped as well for the DVD, since those leave no headroom/footroom even on the opening/closing titles, and AFAIK, once Warners shrank the titles for widescreen at the start of 1954, they didn't shrink them any further thereafter.<br /><br />(Also, "Ducking the Devil" does suffer at least in one instance from the widescreen crop -- we lose Taz standing on the top of the hill when Daffy calls him so he can play the radio to begin the march to the zoo.)J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-26612331540100046752010-08-22T20:18:56.290-04:002010-08-22T20:18:56.290-04:00Most widescreen TVs have a "stretch" fea...Most widescreen TVs have a "stretch" feature, anyway, which takes full-screen programs and stretches them to fill a widescreen. It doesn't look quite right, but it also looks less terrible than that description would suggest. I'm heartily surprised the classics divisions just don't release stuff as it was intended and trust people to get that.Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10538651542043518746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-76107439561722557602010-08-20T01:38:39.881-04:002010-08-20T01:38:39.881-04:00Hopefully cartoons are a special case, in that the...Hopefully cartoons are a special case, in that they are classic films frequently bought for children. For most classic films, the market has always been people film-literate enough that I think companies can be confident that they will understand. <br /><br />I don't think any of those screen-caps (except maybe the last one) are the obvious "slam-dunk" that Thad thinks they are. To me, at best this just suggests is that the film-makers weren't that attentive to the issue of aspect ratio as they made them, which suggests that this is one case where original aspect ratio is not an absolute deal-breaker.<br /><br />If, as here, the format on DVD is the format the filmmakers expected the film to be shown in at the time, it's hard to be too precious.Stephen Rowleyhttp://www.cinephobia.comnoreply@blogger.com