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    Default Game #186 - The Kentucky Fried Movie

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    Daniel forfeited his turn after winning the previous game, so here we go - old style - and I promise to post at least two new screenshots per day, and maybe even some clues...
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    Blues Brothers

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    Nope.

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    "Mosquito on the Tenth Floor".

    Blame google for that!

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    LOL! But no...

    Hint:
    Famous director. Some might even say very famous.

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    On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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    Catch Me If You Can

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    Thx-1138.

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    THX 1138
    Nah...dang! Wrong AR!

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    None right. Keep guessing; you'll get a new screenshot in 4 hours or so, at around 16:00 UTC.

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    Ah, one little clue before I leave, re Krute's guess:

    Not quite as famous a director as George Lucas, this one only has 1/10th of the number of Google hits...

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    Austin Powers

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    He's powerless here...

    New screenshot, as promised, and a clue:

    It appears this movie had a different name in almost every country where it was released.
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    Clockwork Orange

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    No fruit.

    Clue: Made a heap in the box office - about 30 times its budget.

    Now, I'm taking a beauty nap (I need it!), back around 07:00 UTC.

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    A History of Violence

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    Wakey, wakey, Sleeping Beauty, I've got a question for you.

    I often copy and paste screen shots into Photoshop, and apply an "Auto levels" filter, to bring out detail in very dark areas.

    When I did that to your first grab, I noticed that the band of dark at the top of the image was completely featureless - no artifacts, no details, not even any film grain. Looked like the standard black letterbox cropping bar, except that there was no matching black bar at the bottom of the grab.

    When I cut and pasted just the actual image area of that grab, its AR is 1:1.78.

    Then, when I did the same thing to your second screenshot, those black bars showed up at the top and the bottom, as is normal for a letterboxed film. When I cut and pasted the actual image area of that grab, its AR was 1:1.78, also.

    So, obviously the first grab went wrong somehow, and the AR of this film is 1:1.78. Right?

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    Yeah, I'm awake, now!

    Good question. Here's the answer:

    I grab the screens from VLC using click&drag software. If the scene is very dark, It's hard for me to see exactly where the frame edges are. However, IMDB says: Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

    One interesting thing: When I worked as a theater projectionist (in the 1970s), I noted that prints of Disney's "Aristocats" and "Rescuers" had some shots that were 1:1.33 as well as others, that were hard-matted to 1:1.66. Confusing, to say the least, but at that time, no theaters used 1:1.33 screening anymore. Maybe this can explain those black bars you saw?

    This new screenshot shows the entire frame, as played from the DVD.
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    Checking a bit more, the film was shot in 1:1.33, but it is actually intended for widescreen (but not anamorphic) projection, so yes, what I surmised above was correct.

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    Ah, thanks, Janke. Mystery solved.

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    Funny, with the subterranean elevator, the gramaphone, and now the martial arts school, I was beginning to think you were being tricky and posting "Enter The Dragon" again. Can't be, though.....

    Can't even be "You Only Live Twice"..... dang......

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    You are correct. It's neither.

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    Gramaphone? We called it 'A Record Player.'

    Karate Kid? No clue, haven't seen it.

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    Us old geezers call record players "gramophones" (note spelling) or even "phonographs" (note: ho, not or)...

    Next screenshot below - now off for my GF's office X-mas party (spouses or BFs are invited... The smörgåsbord menu spans two full pages!!!)

    Will be back before midnight UTC, with a new pic or clue, provided my belly isn't so full that I can't sit down in front of the 'puter...
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    No new guesses?

    Well, here's the next screenshot, and a clue: ZnO

    Back again later in the morning, EU time...
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