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joelmichael on July 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

I saw this interesting overview of the history of aspect ratios the other day. There's a lot more variety than you'd think.

http://vimeo.com/68830569

awongh on July 18, 2013 [–]

wow, that was well made and informative. I had no idea that that's where the 16:9 aspect ratio came from (the mean ratio of the two most disparate ratios in film)

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