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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJP" data-source="post: 338077" data-attributes="member: 5151">They did not "fix" the wrong size and position of Susan Howard's credit in that season.  It's still a bit too big and still a bit off in contrast to the other cast members' title cards.Remastering and reconstructing usually means that the studios do not tamper with the original presentation.  It's not their intention to delete such errors; the intention is to enhance the picture quality only.In contrast, however, we know that Warner Bros. repositioned a few film frames when they remastered season 3 of "Falcon Crest" in order to avoid a few apparent mistakes we had addressed in our "Behind the Scenes" section, such as the boom microphone being visible on the upper frame.  The negatives were big enough so they could simply show more of the bottom instead of the upper frame, but such "improvements" (?) are very rare and not common.From what I know, the mandate for "Dallas" (and other current remastering issues) was simply to get the answer print (after cleaning these film frames) digitized in the best possible resolution; anything else was to be preserved the same way it was during the original broadcast.As a result, however, we usually don't get a bigger picture.  Although "Dallas" and the other Lorimar shows were filmed on 35 mm films with a camera neg aspect ratio of 1.37 : 1, the newly remastered version is the classic 4 : 3 (= 1.33 : 1) aspect ratio.  The original picture negative as well as the answer print would usually allow to have a bigger picture on each side of the frame.  If they gave us the 1.37 : 1 aspect ratio, we could see a lot more on the sides, but a 1.37 : 1 aspect ratio has never been an industry standard, so these parts will remain unseen after all in the interest of preserving the original aspect ratio (which I personally regret though).As an example  — which is also applicable for "Dallas" —  you can see in our "Making of" section on falconcrest.org how much of the original picture negative is "lost" in the film transfer to distribution copies by cropping: <a href="http://www.falconcrest.org/english/master.php?path=show/productionoffice/making" target="_blank">http://www.falconcrest.org/english/master.php?path=show/productionoffice/making</a>  —  scroll down to the "Post-Production" section where we included a visualization using the scan of an original picture negative in contrast to the distribution prints.</blockquote>

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