Pan & Scan vs. Widescreen. Varje gång ?Ben Hur? visas i Pan & Scan så dör en hundvalp.

Pan & Scan vs. Widescreen

Varje gång ?Ben Hur? visas i Pan & Scan så dör en hundvalp

I ovan klipp så förklaras skillnaden mellan Pan & Scan och widescreen och vad vi förlorar när vi ser en film i fullskärm på gammal hederlig 4:3 TV. Ett antal kända regissörer talar sig varma EMOT pan & scan.

David Lynch är dock lite fascinerad över det hela (från en intervju 1997):

I would like to see everything done letterboxed and with great sound. I'm not too interested in doing the commentary, you know, like a lot of people do. But in some strange way I kind of like pan-and-scan. Because you see things. It is a compromise, and in a couple of things you really say, "Why am I doing it?" But it's just an interesting thing that happens- another composition. It's not so bad, but I wish really that people could see the thing in a theater and that laserdiscs and videos didn't exist. Because on the big screen with the sound, you become inside the film, and that's the beauty of cinema. And it never happens on video, and it doesn't happen on laserdisc, either.

Film & TV, Övrigt, Pan & Sacan, Martin Scorsese, Curtis Hanson, Michael MannVia Kottke.org