abbatazappa

Grizzly
Sorcerer

and these Disney's (from ultimatedisney.com):
-Night Crossing
- Operation Dumbo Drop (2.35:1 OAR) (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Italy and Region 4 - Italy)
- Tom and Huck (2.35:1 OAR) (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - Germany)
- Return to Snowy River (2.35:1 OAR)
- Snowball Express
- Savage Sam
- Man of the House (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - Germany and Region 4 - Australia)
- Heavyweights (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - Germany)
- First Kid (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - Germany and Region 4 - Australia)
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court
- Blank Check (non-anamorphic widescreen in Region 2 - UK, Italy and Region 4 - Australia)
- The Absent-Minded Professor (Update: re-released in USA: 16:9 widescreen black & white Region 1 DVD)
- Gus
- The Moon Spinners
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
- The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Muppet Treasure Island (16:9 widescreen, but edited for Region 2 UK, Netherlands, and Germany)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - UK)
- Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - UK)
- Babes in Toyland
- White Fang (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - UK and Region 4 - Australia)
- Snow Dogs (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - UK, Germany, and Region 4 - Australia)
- Max Keeble's Big Move (16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - Germany and Region 4 - Australia)
- The Country Bears (16:9 Widescreen in Region 2 - UK, Germany and Region 4)
- Cheetah ( 16:9 widescreen in Region 2 - Germany)
- The Journey of Natty Gann (2.35:1 OAR) (available in Widescreen in Region 2 - Netherlands, Belgium; coming to UK, Germany)
- Blackbeard's Ghost
- Air Bud
- Air Bud: Golden Receiver
- A Goofy Movie (non-anamorphic widescreen in Region 2 and Region 4 - Australia)
- George of the Jungle
- Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

abbatazappa

Also blame on Disney:

Three Men and a Little Lady
Taking Care of Business
Can't Buy Me Love
The Scarlet Letter
Ernest Goes to Jail
Ernest Scared Stupid

Mike Deatz

Air Bud
Big Fat Liar
Deathtrap
December
Follow Me Boys
The Front Page (1974)
Gleaming the Cube
If You Only Knew
Joe's Apartment
Lean on Me
Liar's Moon
Little Big League
Mr. Mom
My Girl
My Girl 2
My Tutor
Poison (1991)
Private Benjamin
Running on Empty
Storyville
Straight Talk
There Goes My Baby
Toy Soldiers
The Trouble With Angels
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
White Palace
With Honors
Yours, Mine and Ours

basaro

Hot Dog

...and was Rated X filmed in WS or 4:3 for Showtime TV? The current version is 4:3.

All my other wants have already been mentioned above.

Jah-Wren Ryel

Sorry for any repeats:

Abraxas
Keys to Tulsa
The Commitments (due real soon now)
Jaded
Luscious
Trick or Treat
Kiss the Sky
Saturn 3
My Blue Heaven
Man with two Brains
Deathtrap
The Young Americans
Moonstruck
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Bastard out of Carolina
Party Girl
Snow Dogs
Innocent Blood (this movie deserves so much better)
American Vampire
Fire on the Amazon

dom56

Pumpkinhead

HistoryProf

The Sting
Journey of Natty Gann (Damn you Disney!)

and the most dissappointing release of the last year by far:

Just One of the Guys! ( Columbia!)

jough

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - OAR is 2.35:1 - DVD is 2:1.

MGM has released a whole bunch of FF-only discs over the past year, including Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

And yes, let's bow our heads for a moment for Remo Williams.

tommyp007

Purple Rain

THORN

no he didn't ... the film was released as 1.85:1 but kubrick FRAMED the shots for 4:3 veiwing. so while the director did intend for the film to be viewed as we now see it, 4:3 is NOT the OAR.

Rypro 525

but shouldn't all dvds be as how the director originally intended it to look?

jough

Kubrick wanted the film to fill the entire frame of a display for home video viewing.

Therefore, WB should be releasing 1.78:1 versions of all of those films so that the film fills my entire display. Those black bars on either side of the picture are like, soooo annoying.

digitalfreaknyc

Just curious...

How many of these are available in widescreen in other regions?

Jazzbutcher

Apartment Zero

Joshua Clinard

I would like to thank you guys for coming up with this list. You mentioned quite a few that I had missed. This thread is long, so I created a PHP script to handle the list. It is called the OAR Watchdog. I can edit the list much faster than I ever could a thread on a message board. The list is also sortable by title, studio, and year of theatrical release. Please help me keep this list up-to-date. Please look over the list, and post any additions or changes. You can send an e-mail, or reply to this thread. If you submit a new title, please be sure to include the studio name and release year in your post.

The purpose of the OAR Watchdog is to list films that were shown theatrically in widescreen, but only given a fullscreen release on DVD. Films that are framed incorrectly are beyond the scope of this list. This list only includes Reigon 1 DVDs.

I have added the following titles from this thread, except the ones mentioned.

Aprartment Zero (Cannot find Studio name)
Death Becomes Her
December
Fatal Instinct
Follow Me Boys
The Front Page
Galaxy of Terror (Cannot find DVD release)
Gleaming the Cube
If You Only Knew
Johhny Be Good
KickBoxer
Liar's Moon (Cannot find DVD release)
Mad City (Widescreen, according to Amazon)
My Dinner with Andre
My Tutor
Night Crossing
Poison (2000 is Widescreen, 1991 is OAR)
Repossesed (Cannot find DVD release)
Snowball Express
Split Second
Storyville
There goes my baby
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

PatrickMcCart

"Presented in a "letterbox" widescreen aspect ratio of 2:1 as specified by the director. Enhanced for 16x9 TV's."

Since Austin Powers: IMOM was shot in Super-35, the matting was simply raised a little on the top and bottom.

gutwrencher

Which is why I'm getting the import.

How about:

White Lightning
Gator
Walking Tall(original)
Carbon Copy

cynthia

I don't know if you're including R1 Canada in this list, but Alliance Atlantis has a new widescreen (non-anamorphic) version of Last Night. It has the same cover as the old pan & scan version, but it states widescreen on the back.

fryinpan1

I think this guilty pleasure was originally WS, but the DVD is full screen:

SWR 1

The Road To Wellville is another movie that has suffered full screen only treatment

Dick

Jah-Wren: Sorry for a late (2 years!) reply: BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA was produced for Turner for television broadcast (then rejected and later run on SHOWTIME) and was released on DVD in its original 1.33:1 ratio.

thing-fish24

Creepshow - the Region 1 DVD release contains two versions of the film. The widescreen version is cropped from the pan & scan version. The film was shot in an aspect ratio of 1.66:1.

Eraserhead - shot in fullscreen.

Heavy Traffic - shot in an aspect ratio of 1.66:1. MGM Region 1 DVD release is pan & scan.

Mad Man Morgan - shot in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The most recent DVD release, by Troma Entertainment takes the pan & scan version and crops it to 1.66:1.

Young Frankenstein - shot in fullscreen.

PatrickMcCart

Creepshow is 1.85:1 and films shot at that AR are usually matted on the top and bottom.

Eraserhead is supposed to be 1.85:1. Seriously, do you really think David Lynch would put it out in any AR other than what he prefers when it's from his own DVD production?

Young Frankenstein was shot for 1.85:1 just like Creepshow... matted on the top and bottom.



Also, "The Thief and the Cobbler" is only in pan & scan in R1 from Disney/Miramax. The only way to get it in widescreen and uncut is via a bootleg. A real travesty since it was shot in Panavision.

LorenzoL

Patrick, there's a whole discussion on the Mel Brooks Collection thread in regards to thing-fish24 and the whole Young Frankenstein aspect ratio. It starts on post #148.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....0&page=6&pp=25

thing-fish24

Wrong. The film was SHOT in an aspect ratio of 1.66:1, and shown theatrically in a matted 1.85:1 aspect ratio. It was not shot in fullscreen.

Believe whatever you want to believe. If you think that Young Frankenstein should be widescreen, maybe you believe that Fox should colorize it as well? Then it can be like any other movie instead of an authentic tribute to Universal's Frankenstein series.

Well, that film's also in need of significant reediting and restoration, which the Disney corporation wouldn't be up to. There had been an attempt to restore the film to what the director wanted which stopped when Roy Disney left the company...but that's a whole 'nother story there. I'm personally still peeved that that Iger twit won't release Song of the South, but this isn't the topic for that.