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quoting from News From Me

This is kinda interesting, though you may not want to watch all of it. We're big fans here of the movie musical version of Li'l Abner. The movie was shot for the widescreen VistaVision process and its cinematographer framed its images accordingly. But when they run it these days on Turner Classic Movies, they use a print that has not been cropped for VistaVision format; that shows more of the top and bottom of each shot than was intended. As a result, you see a lot of boom mikes and lights and tops of backdrops and such. Someone has compiled about eight minutes of these cropping malfunctions...