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Burt, cropped for widescreen in Apache

Burt and Jean Peters in the kind of blackface no one seemed to have any problem with in 1954. His is the body on display throughout, and displayed as spectacle as you can see here, thought without the delightfully buffoonish obviousness of Schwarzenegger film of the mid 1980s. I understand Apache was shot in 1.37 and cropped to create a wide-screen image. I don’t think accommodating the sprawl of Burt’s body was the primary consideration.

Film was shot in 1.37 and cropped to create a 1.85 image.

By NotesonFilm1

Spanish Canadian working in the UK. Former film journalist. Lecturer in Film Studies. Podcast with Michael Glass on cinema at https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/ and also a series of conversations with artists and intellectuals on their work at https://josearroyoinconversationwith.com/

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