Movies
September, 1999
When Hollywood first embraced the technology of wide-screen movies in the early Fifties, it was to compete with the new medium of television.The TV screen has become the enemy once more, but for a different reason: It cuts off the sides of any film shot in Cinema Scope or Panavision.Most directors supervise the process of adapting their films for video and television release, including the ''panning and scanning'' that shifts the focus of the central image from one shot to the next. But sometime...
