An imaging or cinematic technique wherein a movie or TV image is displayed on a screen that is too narrow without being stretched and therefore distorted. This technique causes to show black bars at the bottom and top of the image.
For example, think of a 16:9 image in its original unstretched state displayed fully in a 4:3 screen.
Compare: pillarboxed
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The following tags are aliased to this tag: letter_boxed, letterbox (learn more).
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