Treasure Island [1999]

Year:	1999
Country:	International
Language:	English
Genre:	Adventure
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Director	Peter Rowe
Selected Cast	Jack Palance as Long John Silver
	Patrick Bergin as Billy Bones
	Kevin Zegers as Jim Hawkins

Notes

A Canada-UK co-production.

Filmed on the Isle Of Man in 1997.
Jack Palance's last theatrical film.

Video first released in 1999 in Canada.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Treasure Island [1999] - RCV - Netherlands (2002)

Comments and Reviews


Twistin 4th Apr 2021		I realize that, but again, it's not a British production, it's a Canada / UK co-production. It appears to be top-heavy on the Canadian side and since the (North American) DVD and Blu-ray releases frame it at 1.85:1, it seems unlikely that they change that from region to region. I have seen no indication online of this film identified with that aspect ratio. The UK DVD release from ILC Group... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Treasure-Island-DVD-Jack-Palance/dp/B00004T8VM ...says it is "full screen", which means 1.33:1. IMDb doesn't even show a UK release date, so it's possible it never had a theatrical release there. This is just speculation based on what I have found online, but the crumbs do seem to lead in one direction over the other.



George Slv 3rd Apr 2021		Twistin, but they used 1.66 in Britain.



Twistin 3rd Apr 2021		Well, it's actually a Canada / UK production. And on this page: https://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Treasure-Island-DVD/136406/ the DVD release is listed as theatrical 1.85:1, DVD 1.78:1 -- a common extension from theatrical aspect ratio to 16:9 home video widescreen (each cropped from 1.33:1 camera A/R.) Likewise for the Blu-ray: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Treasure-Island-Blu-ray/49350/ Both A/R's used the same 1.33:1 print and an aperture plate on the projector to crop the image (except on hard-matted prints). Anyway, given the theatrical release dates and the fact that two of the three lead cast (and the director) are North American, it seems the primary target audience was North America and an appropriately adapted A/R would have been the default standard.



George Slv 3rd Apr 2021		Since it was a UK production I'd expect it to be 1.66. This film is not even listed in Maltin's book. Leonard Leonard ...



Twistin 3rd Apr 2021		Almost certainly it was shot in 1.33:1 (4:3) and was masked to 1.85:1 in its theatrical run. A lot of films shot and projected that way were released on home video in 4:3, but if you look at the opening credits, they avoid the top and bottom areas so that when masked, the text is not affected. I watched the first five minutes of this film with the top & bottom area cropped to 16:9 and it seems clear that the film was composed for a 1.85:1 display (or possibly, but less likely, 1.66:1 which most North American theaters were not setup to display properly.)



George Slv 2nd Apr 2021		I can't find info on the film's aspect ratio. The DVD was 4:3. This was not a TV movie was it.



George Slv 17th Apr 2016		Here's a site listing all the film versions of this story.

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