Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the...

while others (notably Warner Bros.' The Lego Movie) are transferred open matte (a full widescreen image extended with the added image above and below)...

Look up Matte or matte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Matte may refer to: paint with a non-glossy finish. See diffuse reflection. a framing element...

and the matte background. The traveling matte changed that. The traveling matte was like an in-camera or bi-pack matte, except that the matte line changed...

in both Widescreen (non-anamorphic Univisium 2.00:1) and Full Screen (open matte) versions.[citation needed] Top Gun's home video success was again reflected...

open matte or reframing. In pan and scan, the 4:3 image is extracted from within the original frame by cropping the sides of the film. In open matte,...

of computer-animated tests and music videos. Cyberworld even presented open-matte 3D versions of the bar sequence from Antz and the "Homer3" segment from...

of the film: the original letterbox 2.35:1 widescreen version and an open matte 1.33:1 full screen version. Five years later, on August 27, 2002, Artisan...

incorrectly transferred with an open matte, which revealed the boom mic at the top of the frame frequently (with the correct matte in a theatrical presentation...

projected aspect ratio. These mistakes are noticeable only in the film's open matte video transfers. Lead actor Gregory Walcott, who admired Ed Wood's tenacity...

to VHS on December 23, 1997, and to DVD on February 3, 1998 (with an open matte aspect ratio). Mill Creek Entertainment released the film in a two-disc...

33:1 raster space. This has similarities to a filming technique called open matte. In 1993, the European Union instituted the 16:9 Action Plan, to accelerate...

restorative release. Death Becomes Her was initially distributed in an open matte fullscreen (1.33:1) edition in the U.S., while a widescreen version with...

the full unmasked frame is sometimes used for television, known as an open matte. In such an instance, a photographer will compose for widescreen, but...

for widescreen presentation, allowing the show to be presented in 16:9 open matte (leaving only the title sequence in the 4:3 format). However, as the production...

released in Europe a Spanish-titled DVD La Leyenda de Billie Jean, with 4:3 open matte image, but without any bonus material. A remastered NTSC DVD including...

1999. It was first released on DVD in 1997. The DVD was presented in an open-matte full-screen presentation. Its only feature was the film's theatrical trailer...

containing the "standard" full screen version. The "standard" version is an open matte print, in which the mattes used to make the image "widescreen" are removed...

matted 16:9 widescreen format. The miniseries was originally filmed in open matte format, with director Kenneth Johnson stating he had also composed the...

millions of television viewers became accustomed to seeing the film with the open-matte 1.33:1 framing, a presentation that has carried over into the home video...

film's first broadcast on BBC became notorious for showing the film in an open matte (4:3) format, rather than the 2.40:1 ratio in which the film was intended...

exclusively through Warner Home Video worldwide. The film was presented in an open-matte full screen presentation and included a theatrical trailer and a "Making...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes First released film in an open matte process. Also, the first film shot using open matte. September 2, 1953 Mister Scoutmaster September...

movie, while the open matte version retains the letterboxed 1.85:1 format for the first animated sequence then switches to an open matted 1.85:1 format...

the series was shot with a 16:9-safe area, the remastered series is an open matte of the original 4:3 framing. Creator David Simon approved the new version...

Qatsi trilogy. Unlike the IRE release, which featured the film in the open matte format in which it was filmed, the MGM release was cropped into a widescreen...

released in October, 2009. The digital release of the film is in 16x9 open matte. "The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) - Financial Information". The-numbers...

cassette, Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED), and both letterboxed and open matte LaserDisc, the film was released on DVD in October 2000 and on Blu-ray...

widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1, but has largely only been seen in open matte at an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 since its original theatrical release. The...

or EAR (Expanded Aspect Ratio)/open matte, the latter meaning removing the cinematic matte from a 2.40:1 film to open up the full 1.33:1 frame or from...