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Channel: Quartz
Categories: Fine Arts   |   Society / Culture   |   Film   |   Social Science  
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Widescreen feels cinematic. When black bars come down and a show goes into widescreen, it feels more like a movie. More intense. More epic. The shape of a screen changes how we feel about it, and wide just feels different.

But that feeling is an invention. We had to be taught it. And really, we had to be sold it.

Quartz's Adam Freelander does a deep dive into movie history from Thomas Edison to Cinerama and Pan-and-Scan to "TV Safe" Shooting (or Open Matte, Shooting Flat, etc) and back to the very device that you are watching this video on — the entire aspect ratio explained.

#widescreen #obsession
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