The Official Arbelos Films Thread - Blu-ray Forum

Craig-Rogers · 01-20-2015, 09:53 PM

Thanks so much for the input! It's very helpful.

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Restoration featurettes that actually interview the people involved and have them explain what went on.

Yikes! That would make me speak on camera! LOL

I too love those little booklets that come in some of the Criterion discs, glad to hear I'm not alone.

Can you give some examples of really well done restoration featurettes?

I promise you there are other restorations projects in the works - just nothing I can talk about yet.

I can say that we're all about the highest possible quality with our restorations. We've turned down jobs in which high quality elements were not available. Going back to the original negative is always our goal. We spent months convincing the rights holders to allow us to scan the original negative for Belladonna of Sadness. They offered to make a new print for us, but knowing the original negative was alive and well, that simply wasn't good enough. (I like to say "good enough - isn't") Finally they relented, sent us all of the original elements (picture and sound) and the 35mm negative has now been scanned at 4K at our facility.

Craig-Rogers · 01-20-2015, 09:58 PM

A good example of our "good enough - isn't" approach. We're currently restoring 20+ years of Death Valley Days episodes. The job was offered to at least two other facilities. How'd we get the job? We insisted on scanning and restoring the original 16mm reversal film elements. The other guys created a new dupe IN and restored from that. It's easier and faster to do it that way, but you lose so much resolution and color!

EddieLarkin · 01-20-2015, 10:45 PM

That looks very impressive. I hope we'll one day see the show on Blu-ray!

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Originally Posted by spiffnme

Can you give some examples of really well done restoration featurettes?

This is basically the way to do it:

The restoration story is explained in technical detail (instead of being dumbed down) over stills and video of the film elements and the work stations etc. And at least in both of these examples the speaker is just a voice over

01-20-2015, 09:58 PM	#2
Craig-Rogers Co-Founder Deaf Crocodile Top contributor Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Los Angeles 4K collection:63 Blu-ray collection:560 Blu-ray reviews:3	A good example of our "good enough - isn't" approach. We're currently restoring 20+ years of Death Valley Days episodes. The job was offered to at least two other facilities. How'd we get the job? We insisted on scanning and restoring the original 16mm reversal film elements. The other guys created a new dupe IN and restored from that. It's easier and faster to do it that way, but you lose so much resolution and color!

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