Richard Sliwa has incorporated the fullscreen screenshots that I sent him from the Prisoner of Azkaban into his Widescreen vs. Fullscreen comparison page. I must say that the results are truly amazing. Never before have I seen a fullscreen transfer that is a bigger travesty to the original film than this one is. The news here, is that after examining both transfers, it is apparent that the Prisoner of Azkaban was not shot in Super35, but anamorphic, meaning that the film is truly pan & scan. There is never any additional information on the top or the bottom in any of the shots we examined. There is always at least 45% of the picture information missing from the sides as well. This is clearly one of the greatest examples I have seen that demonstrate the benefits of widescreen vs. pan & scan. If you are still reading this, go check it out!
I’d like to thank Richard for his hard work. I’d like to think that his page will help some fence-sitters out there see the light.