What aspect ratio was The Shining filmed in?
The entire negative was exposed, meaning that there was no in-camera hard matting so the film was effectively shot in Academy 1.37 but it wasn’t intended to be shown in cinemas that way. The film was shot and conceived for 1:1.85 ratio screening (and the camera viewfinders had the 1.85 framelines marked on them) This is the standard ratio that widescreen films in the US are projected in. The 1:185 crop was achieved when the film was projected onto cinemas screens. DM, GS Notes See the note at the bottom of question 11 in theFAQ for more information on aspect ratios See Martin Hart’s American Widescreen Museum site for more information of film formats. 14/ What are the references to Native Americans and what do they mean? In 1987 Bill Blakemore published an influential essay called “The Family of Man” in the San Francisco Chronicle. Blakemore argued The Shining wasn’t really about the murders at the Overlook Hotel. But about the murder of the Native American race He makes a number of in
