Question About the DVD


A friend of mine got a DVD copy of Muppets Take Manhattan a few years ago. It came with a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Recently while watching it, she noticed that the bottoms of the muppets and some hands were visible at the bottom of the screen. According to a website she found, the DVD was released sometime around 2001, reformatted as 1.33:1 from the original 1.85:1. Even if it was just a pan and scan of the original, the bottom of the muppets shouldn't be showing if they didn't in the original. Anybody know anything about this?

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Odds are that it's not a pan-and-scan job; they used an open-matte process to format it for DVD.

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