Haloo! Savant's new reviews today are
To share in a little controversy, Savant's been monitoring a discussion of the proper aspect ratio of The Incredible Shrinking Man, which came out in region 2 recently in an appropriately enhanced widescreen presentation. The consensus is (mostly through generous info from Tom Weaver) that the film was shot with a hard matte sometimes at 1:85 and sometimes at 1:66 (Like Danger: Diabolik). Previous video versions and even recent 35mm film prints have been Pan-Scanned from the wider frame. Guido Bibra has offered some comparisons between the new transfer and older videotape versions of Jack Arnold's movie: Guido Bibra's Incredible Shrinking Man comparison. Here's hoping that we see a region 1 version soon ... I'm afraid the one thing we all agree on is that we're counting those chickens before they've hatched.
On a different note, perhaps this has been circulating for months and Savant is the last one to see it, but I don't care --- this fake trailer takeoff on The Ten Commandments is really funny. Thanks to reader Karl Morton IV for the link: Ten Things I Hate about Commandments.
Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at May 19, 2006 09:54 AM