I've just received a trailer for this film, which is Academy. The titles are designed to fit a 1:1.85 mask, but the picture isn't - it's almost entirely full-height and 1:1.33 actuality footage from the late '30s, with one interview sequence shot a lot later, that looks like a video-to-film transfer.

I find this a bit surprising, as 1:1.33 films reissued by mainstream distributors tend to be optically shrunk into a 1:1.85 matte (e.g. Blair Witch Project and the Mickey Mouse sequence in Fantasia 2000), to get round the problem of many cinemas not having the correct lens and plate for 1:1.33.

Too bad distributors can't count on theatres having the correct lenses, aperture plates and masking to properly show true 1.37:1 Academy ratio (0.825 x 0.602 inches). It's a shame to have all the prints printed with the compromised image area forced by the more commonly available 1.85:1 ratio.
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
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