Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Brown" 
<baffin@c...> wrote:
>
> Not all films have the ratio 4:3. Don't you remember when you were 
young and 
> movie theaters would open the drapes to reveal the screen. The 
trailers were 
> shown in one ratio, then as the feature started the drapes would 
open wider 
> for the "wide screen" film. Also when you see a film advertised as 
70mm the 
> image is only 65mm with the additional 5mm for the sound. When you 
see an 
> Imax film, it is shot in a way that each frame is 70mm square, with 
the 
> sound on a separate machine.
> 
> Gary
> 


http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/filmsize.html

Lately Kodak has been pushing the super 16 size as a good low end 
HDTV size since the ratio is approximately the same, and you can get 
enough pixels out of the scan. As long as you can get timecode on the 
frame, sound actually on the film no longer matters.