Originally Posted by Libretio:
“shot for 1.66 and protected for 1.85 (the latter being not too dissimilar from 1.66 anyway)..”
“shot for 1.66 and protected for 1.85 (the latter being not too dissimilar from 1.66 anyway)..”
That certainly depends on how precisely it is composed. The first two times I saw BETTY BLUE in a UK cinema, it was projected in 1.75:1 (which in most UK cinemas, was the standard non-Scope projection ratio at the time) and it was very obvious that it was cropped from an intended 1.66:1.
Fortunately, the third time I saw it (my only viewing of the three-hour version intιgrale) it was at the National Film Theatre, as was, and they showed it correctly in 1.66:1.
Mind you, I've seen the NFT get it wrong sometimes. I once saw a French film there called L'UNIQUE (I had a thing about Julia Migenes at the time) and it had wording at the top and bottom of the screen saying "This film is not being shown in the intended ratio of 1.85:1" or words to that effect in French.



