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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Probably just stretched it. I highly doubt that anybody would have gone to the trouble of animating edges to the old episodes. Or ever will. This is just not done. Unless George Lucas was in charge.
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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I'm not sure how the animation process works for cartoons, but I do know that there was talk recently of converting the Original Series of Star Trek to widescreen by cropping just a slight bit off the top and bottom and adding more of the available side margins from the original film.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Unless the animators had the foresight to originally create the episodes in widescreen for later conversion, then there'd be no 'margins'. It would make no real sense though, because I believe widescreen format existed during Futurama's original run. If they were going to do it, they would have. I could be wrong here. The old Trek episodes (and other live-action shows) do have some additional picture in the original masters due to camera format differing from broadcast format. But cartoons don't use cameras (excepting stop-motion stuff).
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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Ease of conversion would also depend on the individual scenes. If the crew is just sitting on the couch watching TV, pretty much the only thing you'd need to add to obtain a widescreen aspect ratio is a bit more background. Crowd scenes, on the other hand, would require all new animation, or else some creative cropping.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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I think it's entirely unnecessary.
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Beanoz4
Liquid Emperor
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I've seen many adverts that crop the 4:3 picture into 16:9. Was there any other clips with it from the CC era? I for one would buy every season again on DVD if they re-released them in widescreen
Even if it was just cropped? That's kind of pointless
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Dorsal Axe
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They just stretch the picture for the old episodes. There are also no hidden margins in Futurama. In fact, I recall some discussion on the Bender's Big Score commentary on how the animators had to redraw several scenes from old episodes (e.g. Fry in the cryogenic tube) as the original scenes lacked any animation to occupy the addtional space granted by a widescreen ratio. My understanding is that they just traced the original scenes, then added extra detail on the side. Not too taxing for a few scenes, but it would be an absolutely mammoth undertaking to convert the entire original series in this manner. It would be totally awesome, but will never happen. As for original aspect vs stretched, I personally prefer original aspect. Nice and sharp. But each to their own.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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If you watch the "Bend It Like Bender" feature on the Season 6A DVD, it has a lot of clips from the OR in widescreen. They look alirght, but you can really tell a few of them have been stretched.
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meisterPOOP
Professor
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I agree...I many scenes, a widescreen version can easily made.
But in the case (and other cases) like when the PE crew were at Flushing Downs, now that would be intensive.
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