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Leitner's Cinematography Corner, No. 4

Cinema is scale. Last spring, I saw again Hitchcock's gothic thriller Rebecca on the towering 40ft.-tall screen of a classic movie palace, Loew's Jersey Theatre in Jersey City, N.J. (where a skinny teen named Sinatra grooving to Bing in concert had an epiphany and found his calling). Perhaps it was the antiquated 1.33 aspect ratio that made Hitch's silvery black-and-white images appear to loom far above. Certainly it was the fact I sat up front, every dimension of my peripheral vision occupied by the magnificent 50ft. wide "display." Rebecca, produced by David O.

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