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That one I can see. 1.78 fills our projection screen from top to bottom. With 1.85 there is a sliver of imageless space at the top. A sliver, to be sure, so no big deal. A few years ago (it seems) I counted 10 aspect ratios. Now, all of a sudden there are more. Didn't we have enough?

I'll hold out for Perfection 4:3 is 1.33:1. That was -- very approximately -- the TV aspect ratio. As Leonard Maltin pointed out, you missed a bit of the image when watching an ordinary movie on old TV, but it wasn't too bad. Why? Professional 35mm films tended to be shot and projected in...

A friend of mine, in an intro to film class, was actually told -- by the instructor -- that the skinny people at the end of a movie was a style. I went into my semi-annual conniption-fit.