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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2002-01-29T11:25:00'
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title: Film aspect ratios
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I discussed film aspect ratios with my mom last night. She's seen _The Lord of the Rings_ at several theaters now, and has noticed that some screens were showing the movie "wider" than others -- that details were being dropped on the left and right on those screens not as wide. I hadn't heard of the movie being released with differing prints, so I suggested she was the victim of an incompetent projectionist. I still don't know, but Roger Ebert [wrote an excellect article on the problem](http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/09/11/ebert_widescreen/) last fall.