Jessica Pare, who much later became
famous by playing Megan Draper in Mad
Men and singing "Zou Bisou Bisou"on
that show, was not shy about showing
off her spectacular figure in the
first decade of the millennium.
Way back in 2000, she did a nude
scene in a film called Stardom. If you
view this film on DVD, you'll see it
in its theatrical widescreen ratio,
but back then movies were still shot
on 35MM and usually released on VHS.
VHS used a TV-style 4:3 ratio, and
most films were simply presented that
way.
There are two common ways to make a
VHS 4:3 version from a soft matte 35MM
film
The more complicated method is to use
pan&scan&zoom to create a
completely new version from the
negative. This requires a tremendous
amount of time and effort (and
therefore expense).
The simplest conversion was produced
by simply using the entire negative.
It just so happens that 35 mm film has
a 1.37:1 aspect ratio, and TVs are
1.33:1. Nobody cares about the slight
difference. This technique is called
"open matte", which means the whole
negative becomes the new TV version.
It is the second method which
interests us the most, since it
produced some VHS scenes that we were
never really meant to see, footage
"outside the corners" - portions of
the original negative which had been
visible to the cameraman, but
(theoretically) not to us.
Most of the time, we saw meaningless
details like boom mikes, but
occasionally we'd catch a glimpse of
something more interesting. Famous
examples include Kate Winslet's
complete butt in Titanic, or Beverly
D'Angelo showering in her panties in
Vacation.
In this case, we saw Jessica Pare's
bush.
Back in the late 90s and early 00s,
even many early DVDs included both a
widescreen and a full screen VHS-style
version (or, even more puzzling,
sometimes just the full screen
version!)
That era is gone. You pretty much
never see a full-screen DVD, but even
somebody wanted to create one, the
original source material would
probably not be suitable because 35MM
film is almost as dead as the VHS
format. Films bypass the negative
stage because they are shot in WYSIWYG
digital format and are widescreen from
the get-go.