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Author Topic: DVD Re-Cropping "Smallest Show On Earth" Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 01-13-2008 11:01 AM                     I just replaced my well-worn 20+year old VHS copy of "THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH" with a DVD version. For some reason, they decided to re-crop the original 1:37 aspect ratio to 1:66 on the DVD. GRRRRRRR! I HATE when they do stuff like this.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 01-13-2008 11:36 AM                     The recommended aspect ratio for The Smallest Show On Earth would have been 1.66. Regardless of whether or not the film was printed full frame with the intention that the projector's aperture plate would crop the picture, or the old VHS cropped the sides, most British flat films were composed for 1.66 and most American flat films were composed for 1.85 by 1957.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-20-2008 01:35 AM                       Jim, were'd you get the DVD? I need to put that on my wish list. I have an old VHS of that show taped off of the Nostalgia Channel (which I don't think is around anymore), in 1995. Wow, I miss that channel. They used to run great B-Westerns every Saturday. Double features. I taped a lot of those, too.  |  IP: Logged Bernard Tonks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-20-2008 06:00 AM                     Tim, You can buy the DVD Region 1 from: Playusa.com. http://www.playusa.com/DVD/Region_1/3-/110646/-/Product.html?searchstring=smallest+show+on+earth Widescreen 1.66:1 Anamorphic.  |  IP: Logged Ray Faultless Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Amington, Tamworth, England Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-20-2008 06:46 AM                     Some months ago I was browsing the dvds in a local pound shop and found The Smallest Show on Earth. I bought it for £1. Sometime this week I will go and see if they have any more and let you know.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-20-2008 02:05 PM                       Thanks, fellas!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-21-2008 02:03 PM                     Tim, I also highly reccomend "The Titfield Thunderbolt" and "Whiskey Galore"... two of the best gems of British film making that exist. Both are available on E-Bay. The line that says it all in Whiskey Galore...""Not famine, nor pestilence, nor Hitler's bombs, nor the hordes of an invading army, but something far, far worse." Mark  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-22-2008 10:22 AM                     Plenty available on Ebay and fairly cheap too.  |  IP: Logged

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