Seinfeld wasn't shot widescreen safe actually, for example.

http://i61.tinypic.com/24fzcj4.jpg

Of course it was look at that dead air above and below ! Composing for 4/3 stopped in 1953.

(2017-05-30, 11:19 PM)Stamper Wrote: Of course it was look at that dead air above and below ! Composing for 4/3 stopped in 1953.

Right, completely misunderstood what you meant

1953 Stamper? This thread is about TV. There are plenty of shows that were conceived and shot in 4:3. The blu ray box set of Twin Peaks is pillarboxed. The X files didn't consider widescreen safe shooting until a few seasons in and didn't commit fully until much later. Joss Whedon is mad as hell about the 16:9 cropping of Buffy.

Malcolm In The Middle was made with a 16:9 ratio in Linwood Boomer's mind but you can still see a couple of technical stuff in the open matte area such as lightings, crew members or boom mics. Only in the first two seasons though.