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Originally Posted by 42041
That's silly. I have no use for a 1940 movie that looks like it was shot in 2010 (which it won't, mind you, it'll look like a 1940 movie heavily processed to look cleaner). I don't want the image they WANTED, I want the image they got. At least, omitting the generation loss of the theatrical print.
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Hold up, there...I was talking about just having a few of the excess specks tastefully removed from the print, not a waxy-sheened digital video game restoration.
You can do both, and still have the film look like it was shot back in 1940. It's not an "either/or," zero-sum game.
This is what I can't stand about the grain-purists. They actually maintain with a straight face that Billy Wilder and Orson Welles would have said, back in the day, if given a choice:
"Oh, no --
don't make the image look cleaner and smoother! We prefer our classic films to be a little muddy, clouded up by that whole grain-storm effect. Better that way."