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Pan and scan
Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown within the proportions of an ordinary television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the composition's most important aspects. Most film enthusiasts consider the practice destructive to the director's original vision and intentions, because it can remove up to 45% (on 2.
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