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Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:46 pm
I saw Hugo, and there are many clips of Meliès's films, including A Trip to the moon, (colored version).
Well, when the characters watch A Trip to the Moon, the print it's like the recent restoration we talked in other topics, but have dust ans instability, since they were watching in a home projector.
But in the end of the film (about 1:57min) during a large presentation to audience there are several clips (Impossible Voage, trip to the... Diable), looking really clean, indeed fantastic, without the yellow color cast from DVD editions. A trip to the Moon look really very stable, clear and the scene when the ship hits the moon looks perfect, no missing frame or jump.
I just can say that the high quality look of the Meliès clips in hugo gave a new dimention to Meliès films. The Scene from the Farces du Diable was much, really much better to watch than the prints I saw earlies on DVD and YV.
My question:
Was all the shorts showed in the scene fully restored to such nearly perfection, or just the segments presented?
Is A trip to the Moon, the coming Blu Ray, restored ijn the same level as the scene I described in Hugo?
Why the DVD edition, with claimed restored prints, did not removed the intence yellow color cast (probably from dyes agging) of many hand colored Meliès shorts?
Was the restored clips, used in Hugo, over restored, or had some tricks, some technic that wold concern some restorer as changing the films in some way, like recolored by computer simulating blush hand coloring ?
Well, when the characters watch A Trip to the Moon, the print it's like the recent restoration we talked in other topics, but have dust ans instability, since they were watching in a home projector.
But in the end of the film (about 1:57min) during a large presentation to audience there are several clips (Impossible Voage, trip to the... Diable), looking really clean, indeed fantastic, without the yellow color cast from DVD editions. A trip to the Moon look really very stable, clear and the scene when the ship hits the moon looks perfect, no missing frame or jump.
I just can say that the high quality look of the Meliès clips in hugo gave a new dimention to Meliès films. The Scene from the Farces du Diable was much, really much better to watch than the prints I saw earlies on DVD and YV.
My question:
Was all the shorts showed in the scene fully restored to such nearly perfection, or just the segments presented?
Is A trip to the Moon, the coming Blu Ray, restored ijn the same level as the scene I described in Hugo?
Why the DVD edition, with claimed restored prints, did not removed the intence yellow color cast (probably from dyes agging) of many hand colored Meliès shorts?
Was the restored clips, used in Hugo, over restored, or had some tricks, some technic that wold concern some restorer as changing the films in some way, like recolored by computer simulating blush hand coloring ?
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