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...every spot on earth once every 48 hr. in daylight. Big Bird sends back TV images and provides high-resolution photographs, which are ejected in parachute-equipped canisters that can be hooked in mid-air by recovery planes. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have satellites that can scan the earth with radar beams. One objective: to track naval vessels...
...child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed irreparable damage from the stroke and her injuries. She died the next day, at 52, after Rainier and their older children, Princess Caroline, 25, and Prince Albert, 24, agreed to the removal of a life-support system. At week's end Stéphanie remained hospitalized with...
Early on the morning of Aug. 28, PFC Joseph White of St. Louis was on duty, assigned to scan the North Korean frontier just 15 yds. away. Some time before dawn, White walked out to the chain-link fence surrounding Guard Post Ouellette, blasted the lock on the gate (probably with his M16) and scurried north. About 7:20 a.m., an Army comrade spotted him on the other side of the rugged no-man's land: still carrying his rifle, the blond G.I. was grabbed by a squad of North Koreans and hustled down into their bunker...
Essentially, panning and scanning requires a technician to isolate a portion of the wide-screen action, recopy it onto tape or film and discard whatever else around it does not fit. In the process, 20% to 60% of the original image can be lost. The pan-and-scan technician moves optically over the film, creating tracking shots the director never intended; he can also delete, by necessity or miscalculation, vital pieces of visual information...
Peter Keane, director of quality control for Home Box Office, admits that panning and scanning is "a series of compromises," but maintains that "the film redirects you. There is always a center." Says Tom McCarthy, senior vice president, post production, at Columbia Pictures: "Panning and scanning involves creative decisions." Unfortunately, those decisions are not made by the creators of the movie. Yet Richard Wolfe, 20th Century-Fox's vice president of engineering and video technology, insists, "My experience is that directors are not interested in the pan-and-scan transfer session...