Pyoko, i don't remember Mickey's Trailer having all those composite video artifacts on my R1 treasure but can't confirm right now. (I watched all the Mickey treasures in a never ending marathon when i got them all last year at the same time after starving for them for so long, so i coulda been drunk with ink and paint tho, and i could be mixing shorts
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Is your mmilc v1 copy by any chance one of the European R2 editions?
I guess watching it again is another thing to add to my To do list
reviews!
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Nice choice of Home Improvementz background oh so appropiate
but now i'll take on Aaron
Aaron wrote:Everything on Mickey Mouse in Black & White is presented in 1.33:1 fullscreen. Most of the shorts are windowboxed to varying degree, but this should only show up in the very earliest shorts (where there is considerable windowboxing) on a set with overscan.
well , ahem ..
the way that was phrased it almost seems that all the shorts are in 1.33
Actually some are NOT in 1.33
. They are in the "Movietone" sound aperture, which is around 1.17 to 1.21 wide, like in this two shots:
and
The Dethistory
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Silent films were about 18mm x 24mm, 1.33
Then sound came and adding the optical soundtrack on the space occupied partially by the left side of the image that width was reduced to 21mm, giving you the so called "Movietone News" aperture. Which would be something around like 18mm x 21mm, 1.17 wide or so. (i'll use "1.2" from now on for short
) (Sharpo eyed UDies might note that this is almost the same aperture as Cinemascope's too
which is made 2x wide by the anamorphic lens).
But the new "narrower" "squarish" Movietone image wasn't pleasing to the eye for long narrative films (as the eyes tend to see a more horizontal angle of view) so the Academy of Arts and Sciences agreed on a new aperture shape to make it more or less like it was before, so they reduced the height of the image too, to bring it back in line, choosing dimensions of 15.240 mm x 20.955mm (0.600" x 0.825" in the English system), 1.375 wide, as the new shape of sound films. The Academy Sound Aperture.
15.25 x 21mm for short
, as oposed to the 18mm x 21mm of the Movietone, or the 18mm x 24mm of the Silents.
With Mickey b/w shorts, which went through that transitional era, they should be in 1.33 only if they have the original Silent camera negatives as sources, go into around near 1.2 for "Movietone" sources, and finally reach 1.375 for the ones shot in and for the Academy sound cameras ratio.
From Aaron captures, you can tell most of these shorts are in 1.33 from probably analog standard video masters (nominally 486 x 711) not reaching the digital age 720 pixel width (see those little tiny black bands at the sides of most captures), apart from the Movietone ratio ones.
(And since they are in b/w NTSC, theoreticaly we dont have any analog/composite video problems as moiré and dot crawl or loss of resolution cus theres no need to separate the color signal with a notch or comb filter
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So where's the mmlcv1 review?
Hey- I actually understood everything you said this time! 
Look for it on the "Coming Soon" list on page 1 of this thread sometime this summer.