| 单词 | letterbox format |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletterbox format 5. Film and Television. A format for presenting widescreen images on a traditional television or monitor screen while preserving the original aspect ratio of the images, which appear across the middle of the screen with dark bars above and below. Usually attributive, esp. in letterbox format. ΚΠ 1956 Times 14 June 5/4 The letter-box shape of the wide screen is not always suitable for every scene of every type of film.] 1963 P. Houston Contemp. Cinema iv. 55 Jokes about CinemaScope's letter-box format..vanished into screen history. 1977 Movie Maker 11 1020/3 I've had some unkind things to say about ‘the letter box effect’ of widescreen in a small room. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 16 Oct. b7/4 Each movie airs in the usual format, but changes to letterbox whenever there's a song. 1996 Premiere Feb. 90/2 This is one film that really needs the letterbox format—never have so many crucial, scary things happened in the corner of the frame. 2005 Computer Buyer May 33/1 This high-performance display features normal, wide, panoramic and letterbox modes. < as lemmas |
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