Digital BW, The Print

Pardon me for jumping in here. Film hasn't been shot with sound on the
picture for sixty years... Most MP sound is captured with a separate sound
recorder and synced using various methods -- that's what the traditional
slate was for. The clapper sound matched the visual on the film so that the
sound track and the film could be synced during the edit stage. Nowadays,
the sync is done with a digital slate and timecode recorded on the film and
sound track, but it can still be done the old fashioned way. Sound is still
re-recorded on an optical track for many projection systems, however, such
as 16mmm and 35mm. 

Consumer Super8 was capable of using a magnetic stripe to record sync sound,
thereby avoiding the dual system hassles inherent in 16mm and 35mm film
work.

Film has several aspect ratios that are more common than the traditional
"Academy" 4:3 ratio, including 1.85:1 and 2.35:1 (Cinemascope or anamorphic
widescreen). Some of you may recall Cinerama or Techniscope... Anton
Wilson's book, Cinema Workshop has a very good detailed chapter on film
formats and their history, for those who might be interested.

Jim

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On 11/13/05 7:24 AM, "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com"
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Subject: Re: Framing again - Aspect Ratios
> 
> --- 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.