Alternate Title: Eddsworld and the SHAPE of Online Video

Eddsworld video about Aspect Ratios? That's right! Old Eddsworld eddisodes have black bars on the edge of the screen, but so do old movies and TV Shows... why is that? In this surprisingly long video we discuss the history and development of all the major aspect ratio formats, 4:3 to 21:9 Cinemascope, 16:9 to IMAX, 35mm film to TikTok and YouTube Shorts. All, as usual, done through the lens of

📻MUSIC:
Mondo Loops X Aiguille - Dancing in the Dark
End of Summer - The 126ers
Wishful Thinking - Dan Leibowitz
Parasail - Silent Partner
Don't turn back - silent partner

📼VIDEOS:
Eddsworld
The Eddsworld Fan Movie
   • CD / Aspect Ratio  
   • Basically I'm Gay  
   • We had to ban this song in our house 😂  
   • [part 1] 2 days into college - song b...  
   • a villain who unintentionally always ...  
   • The Most INTELLIGENT Phone Camera!  
   • Instructions were unclear @halcybella...  
   • White People Food  
   • Tortellini Time #shorts  
   • Easiest $3 Pasta | Meals That Got Me ...  
   • I think that was a yes 😂🧡 His first t...  
   • Bro is not doing well...  
   • “I’ve been considering things that be...  
   • Custom Keyboard 🎨🖌️ SpongeBob and Jel...  
   • Saul Bass's Movie Posters  
   • CD / Resolution  
   • The Worst Hot Takes in Tech  


📺MOVIES/TV:
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894/5)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Godzilla (1954)
Rejected (2000)
The Simpsons (1989)
Sound of Music (1965)
Laurence of Arabia (1962)
Ad Astra (2019)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
C'est Polyvision (1929)
The World's End (2013)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
La La Land (2016)
American Beauty (1999)
Gattaca (1997)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Batman TAS (1992)
The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
Sex Education (2019)
Friends (1994)
Following (1998)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
Saltburn (2023)
Dark Knight Rises (2012)

📹OTHER CLIPS:
Tetris (1984)
Figure 1. Schubin, M. (1996). Searching for the perfect aspect ratio. SMPTE journal, 105(8), 460-478.
Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u
Hot Mulligan - Equip Sunglasses
Nokia Widescreen TV Advert (   • Nokia - Widescreen TV  )
PS3 Montage Advert (   • PlayStation 3 Commercial - Montage  )
   • Introducing the shorter side of YouTube  
   • Introducing YouTube Shorts  
Introducing Apple Vision Pro

📝 SOURCES:

The invention of film and 4:3: Belton, J. (1990). Historical Paper: The Origins of 35mm Film as a Standard. SMPTE Journal, 99(8), 652-661.

https://www.artforum.com/features/squ...

The development of 16:9: Schubin, M. (1996). Searching for the perfect aspect ratio. SMPTE journal, 105(8), 460-478.

4:3 was widened to make room for sound info: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/wha....

Great history of aspect Ratios:    • The Changing Shape of Cinema: The His...  

Widescreen as an attempt to compete with TV: https://a24films.com/notes/2020/09/th...

All stock footage is free to use without credit from Pixabay and Pexels
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This video was written, narrated, edited, and published by me: The Tomee Bear

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