sevenhooks
03-31-2007, 10:06 AM
Years ago, I came into my possession an actual World Northal screener VHS for one of their later titles (one that never aired on tv to my knowledge).
It came in a black, hard shell case with an inset card slipped into the clear plastic on the outside of the case.
The inset card read the title of the film, it's running time, the date the screener was apparently made as well as the W.N. company logo and contact/address info.
The film itself was uncut from what I could tell.
But there's something I've always wondered about all these years.
When Shaw sent a foreign distributor like World Northal it's films, how did they send them? In what format?
I know, for instance, that WN was also screening many of these films theatrically throughout the country as well.
So would they receive everything from Shaw in 35mm cannisters?
What about when it came time to make pan and scan versions of these films for US television?
I imagine W.N. did that?
I ask in particular since that screener VHS I had previously mentioned was NOT widescreen.
It had been reshot, pan and scan style.
It came in a black, hard shell case with an inset card slipped into the clear plastic on the outside of the case.
The inset card read the title of the film, it's running time, the date the screener was apparently made as well as the W.N. company logo and contact/address info.
The film itself was uncut from what I could tell.
But there's something I've always wondered about all these years.
When Shaw sent a foreign distributor like World Northal it's films, how did they send them? In what format?
I know, for instance, that WN was also screening many of these films theatrically throughout the country as well.
So would they receive everything from Shaw in 35mm cannisters?
What about when it came time to make pan and scan versions of these films for US television?
I imagine W.N. did that?
I ask in particular since that screener VHS I had previously mentioned was NOT widescreen.
It had been reshot, pan and scan style.