Aspect Ratios
The first eleven bunny shorts were created in full screen and standard-definition formats (The Exorcist and The Shining bunny shorts were shot in an aspect ratio of 1.37:1 instead of 1.33:1). All current bunny shorts from The War of the Worlds onwards are animated in widescreen and high-definition formats, although the Rocky bunny short (as a VW Fox commercial) is reformatted from its original ratio of 1.66:1 to the full screen ratio of 1.33:1 (cropping the left and right of the image), though not pan and scan as the camera stays directly in the center of the image. Like other television shows filmed in high-definition (such as American Idol, Father of the Pride, Curious George, and Out of Jimmy's Head) and other films filmed in high-definition (such as The Proud Family Movie, Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry, Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?, High School Musical, and The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers), the monitor the animation team would have worked from would have 16:9 and 4:3 safe areas so that the full screen version would not crop off too much of any important visual elements (such as characters). All bunny shorts filmed in widescreen are seen on Starz on Demand and widescreen images of the shorts are shown, but with no black bars showing (an anamorphic print compressed to fit the full screen ratio). The bunny shorts created in full screen are on Starz on Demand as well, but some of them are slightly matted from their original full screen ratio of 1.33:1 to the widescreen ratio of 1.66:1 with no black bars showing (an anamorphic print compressed to fit the full screen ratio).
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