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Shawscope Film vs. Pan and Scan? S ince the Venoms films were particularly shot in anamorphic and are rectangular, and the television is basically square - there are a couple of ways to handle the transfer.
Letterbox: You can tell without dialogue that you get some sense of the relationships and drama in the scene. That's just basic visual storytelling preserved by letterboxing the image. But there are some people who think the black bars indicate that they are losing picture or that it is somehow preferable to somehow have the image fill their TV screen. So in order to do that, we have to first zoom in on the film, to fill the top and bottom, which consequently crops off huge chunks of picture on the sides.
Colored Center is all you actually see in Full Frame.
Pan and Scan (Center Scanning): "Panning and Scanning" is adding an artificial camera move that the director never intended. The scan makes a compromise in trying to follow the action. By doing so, you've actually ruined the director and cinematographer's original composition (What Chang Cheh officially defined as "Shawscope") in order that the audience doesn't lose the story of the movie. So in order to follow the action and the dialogue, we need to do some artificial "Panning and Scanning".
Place mouse over image to see "Pan and Scan" example.
Finale Sequence in "Avenging Warriors" butchered to hell.
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