TopBilled Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Two Alan Ladd films on the schedule today are not being shown in widescreen. Instead, THE DEEP SIX and THE BIG LAND are being broadcast in full screen on TCM. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Two Alan Ladd films on the schedule today are not being shown in widescreen. Instead, THE DEEP SIX and THE BIG LAND are being broadcast in full screen on TCM. Why? TCM deep six it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 What a terrible print of THE BIG LAND. Not only should it be airing in the widescreen format, the copy they are using is not clean and not easy to view in many scenes. They should have used another film for his tribute if they only had this print of THE BIG LAND available to them. Why didn't they pick THE MCCONNELL STORY, which aired in May for June Allyson's tribute? That went over quite well with viewers, it is in the Turner Library, and it has a beautifully restored print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 What a terrible print of THE BIG LAND. Not only should it be airing in the widescreen format, the copy they are using is not clean and not easy to view in many scenes. They should have used another film for his tribute if they only had this print of THE BIG LAND available to them. Why didn't they pick THE MCCONNELL STORY, which aired in May for June Allyson's tribute? That went over quite well with viewers, it is in the Turner Library, and it has a beautifully restored print. I still can't figure out why tcm won't smilebox significant cinerama films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ice Station Zebra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 What a terrible print of THE BIG LAND. Not only should it be airing in the widescreen format, the copy they are using is not clean and not easy to view in many scenes. They should have used another film for his tribute if they only had this print of THE BIG LAND available to them. Why didn't they pick THE MCCONNELL STORY, which aired in May for June Allyson's tribute? That went over quite well with viewers, it is in the Turner Library, and it has a beautifully restored print. And Shane is on MOVIES! tomorrow nite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmovieviewer Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Both the IMDB and the Warner Archive web sites list the original aspect ratio for The Big Land as 1.37:1, so perhaps the correct format was shown for this case. (Note that even though the Warner Archive page shows a widescreen preview, this is generated by cropping the top and bottom of a fullscreen image. I verified this by comparing it with my TCM recording.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Both the IMDB and the Warner Archive web sites list the original aspect ratio for The Big Land as 1.37:1, so perhaps the correct format was shown for this case. (Note that even though the Warner Archive page shows a widescreen preview, this is generated by cropping the top and bottom of a fullscreen image. I verified this by comparing it with my TCM recording.) Yes, I think you may be right about THE BIG LAND. But the other one, THE DEEP SIX, had a theatrical aspect ratio of 1:85 to 1 and should have been shown in widescreen. Yesterday, the Carroll Baker flick SOMETHING WILD aired, and I don't think it should have been presented in full screen format either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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