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Abstract

A film video player/printer provides for cropping a photographic film by displaying the film image on a video monitor, the display consisting of not only the image to be included in an optical print but the image to be excluded, just off the print. Reticle-generating circuitry serves to display and to rotate a given rectangular reticle centered within the border of the image displayed, the perimeter and the orientation of the reticle defining respectively the portion of the image to be printed and the format of the print to be made. To further facilitate cropping, border logic and control circuitry, operable prior to a photographic printing operation, serves for blanking-out the portion of the image displayed outside of the reticle, so that the video image temporarily corresponds exactly to the print to be made.

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