though, to my eye, it still appears in the title safe area.
Exactly. I can see where perhaps they wanted to make doubly sure the UPI ticker detailing the Jenkins' deaths didn't get cut off because that does seem just a bit wider than even the closing credits are. But if one shrinks the Blu-ray version of the closing credits to 320 pixels wide and does a comparison between it and the VHS version, do they really look all that different:
Certainly not with a difference as wide as the black boxing used in other parts of the film, so it actually begs the question as to whether or not they even boxed anything from the close of the film apart from the UPI ticker?
And then there's why even box part of the opening credits when no part of it during the boxing seems to have been likely not to have shown on a 4X3 TV, whereas DC's producer/director, which is the widest credit in the opening, wasn't even boxed?
But of course we weren't in the room when these decisions were made, so how are we to fathom that they did what they did?
But be that as it may, let's move on to something else - namely how I never really ever paid much notice to the sketch that's hanging on the wall near the door when Charles answers the door to Gabriel. And I have no idea how I actually could have paid little attention to it, particularly in the VHS version of the film where it seems to show up more prominently for a longer period of time:
Apparently one can easily presume that Angelique wasn't always as, uh, overly dressed as she was when she was posing for Charles' unfinished portrait.
And apparently this is yet further proof that no matter how often one watches something (and I've watched NoDS so many time that I lost count long ago) one can still pick up things on even more repeated viewings.
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ADMIN: Edited to add better images, including a Laser Disc capture)