Casablanca is not full screen?

Yes, it is.

Casablanca is not full screen?

Yep, 4:3 format.

Yes, it is.


I watching now and their are black bars on either side.

So, DVD or TV setting?

On a widescreen TV a full screen movie will have black bars on the left and right side of the screen.

"Casablanca" is not "full screen"
on a widescreen display! ;)

Set your TV to the stretch mode for 4x3 whatever that is. My is called Just on the Panasonic.

Casablanca is in its original Academy Format of 4:3, that was how it was shot and that is how it is presented.

In all of its glory.

Yes, this is how it looked. Until 1953 just about all films had this AR. This is not full screen but OAR.

Art

Set your TV to the stretch mode for 4x3 whatever that is. My is called Just on the Panasonic. I hope you're not suggesting he stretch the picture to fit his screen ratio. Sacrilege!

Yeah it's 4:3
and amazingly looks fantastic for a 65 year old black and white film.
They did an amazing job retouching it.

Set your TV to the stretch mode for 4x3 whatever that is. My is called Just on the Panasonic.

Your kidding I hope.

I wonder how many people don't know that movies weren't always widescreen.

I wonder how many people don't know that movies weren't always widescreen.

A staggering number I'm afraid. :(

Art

A staggering number I'm afraid. :(

Art

Damn. And here I was thinking that films had always been "talkies", and in colour :D

I took a date to see Gone with the Wind during its rerelease and ran into the same problem. She couldnt figure out why it wasnt taking up the whole screen.

I wonder how many people don't know that movies weren't always widescreen.

And to think that it was only a year or two ago that we were struggling to make people understand widescreen, and those "not as god intended" black bars at the top and bottom.