letterboxing
Britishnoun
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a method of formatting film that enables all of a wide-screen film to be transmitted on a television screen, resulting in a blank strip of screen above and below the picture
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a type of treasure hunt in which a box, known as a letterbox , is hidden in a remote rural location and clues are provided as to its whereabouts
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If you are seeing a Nolan film in IMAX, you might notice how the image toggles between filling up the whole screen and letterboxing to fill just the middle.
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2023
Some games and movies will display letterboxing since the 16-inch display has a tall 16:10 aspect ratio.
From The Verge • Aug. 18, 2022
Creator Genndy Tartakovsky plays with framing, using split-screen effects and letterboxing the image for “cinematic” effects that also suggest the way a graphic novelist carves up a page.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2022
The presentations at MoMA, which will use a single digital projector, will have “smilebox” letterboxing, approximating the illusion of depth that original moviegoers got from the extreme curvature of the screen.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018
Trish Kurdziel, 44, of North Kingstown, R.I., goes letterboxing regularly with her husband and their three children, ages 6, 9 and 11.
From Time Magazine Archive
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