LC, :) Very good work. The fire and the shirts are a little to yellowish for my taste, but that's kinda of how many vintage lobby-cards, posters. and trade ad's looked at the time. I agree with you about the yellows. If I were doing the color transfers for these stills, I definitely would have made...

Little Caesar, Thanks! I like this a lot better. That one was my first experiment with my new skin tone tool, and it turned yellow. (I didn't change the photo from sepia to monochrome! :lol: ) If that was what you were able to achieve with that skin tone tool, then I believe that you are on the rig...

Here are some new ones! (I've been experimenting with skintones) http://sadpanda.us/images/1371405-74ER6TT.jpg Myrna Loy http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa425/asiri358/1371405-74ER6TT.jpg ElectricPhonograph, I took your Myrna Loy photo and altered the color balance of your skin tones. Basically...

valleebill, I like your work. I'm a big Keaton fan too and have done a few color transfers of Keaton stills (they can be seen in an album at the Facebook page in my signature. I don't think you have to be a facebook member to view the stills. Anyway, all of them have been posted here in this thread ...

LC, :o Great work. Although Bill is a little Gray. Is that the way you wanted his hair to look? I'm posting this oldie from my Photobucket account. Ever since they changed formats 6 months ago I have not been able to upload a thing there. I do what the help mode tells me to do, but nothing has uplo...

First Rinty and now Asta! This thread is going to the dogs!

Bob, When I posted the B&W version of this still last year, the same pun was made then! LOL! Alyce does seem to achieve the impossible by upstaging Clara! Gagman, Yes, I've read that UCLA has done preservation work on this title. It would be nice to see it at some point. Does anyone know if its PD o...

If any of you have the DVD of "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao," there's a vintage MGM featurette included about the make-up artist William Tuttle. The process of making a life-mask is explained, and Tuttle shows off a wall of life masks that include Clark Gable and Fred Astaire among many others. Intere...

Clara Bow, Ford Sterling, and Alyce Mills in "My Lady's Lips" (1925)

http://api.ning.com/files/fTjX0M7n2dw7MCt4iKGCbnuoHkahmHcPExsIaUwg-iQiCptCi1*u02XAF-3scyBQvYR0jkVWeGRJZ8gzKpFVAOplN*VK*8H7/DressingHerRealPretty.jpg "Dressing Her Pretty" Gagman, that Dolores Costello still is from Mannequin (1926). I have a couple stills from that film (one of which is somewhat si...

IDing the performers in these photos: 3. A studio flub by Warners itself. They sometimes don't know their own performers. Still is labeled to be from EXPENSIVE WOMEN. Is it the right film wrong actress or right film supporting player? But it's not D. Costello. http://www.ebay.com/itm/DOLORES-COSTEL...

Harold Lloyd and Barbara Kent in "Welcome Danger" (1929)

Florence Vidor and Lowell Sherman in "You Never Know Women" (1926)

I always make it a point to watch "The Thin Man" around this time of year since the events of that film take place around Christmas. If you're looking for a good movie to watch around New Years, watch "After the Thin Man." The events of that movie take place only a few days after the events of the f...

I don't have much to contribute Christmas-wise, but here's Stan and Ollie along with William Burress in "Babes in Toyland" (AKA "March of the Wooden Soldiers). http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa425/asiri358/babes2.jpg On the back of the still, there is a handwritten note (presumably for press pu...

Congratulations! Let's hope the Mayans were wrong so we can celebrate Nitrateville's sixth anniversary next year!

I set my DVR to record this show last night, and I sat down to watch it this morning. Everything was going very well for the first twenty minutes or so. However, around the twenty minute mark, an episode of "That Girl" cut into "Route 66." I started fast-fowarding only to find an episode of "I Love...

I set my DVR to record this show last night, and I sat down to watch it this morning. Everything was going very well for the first twenty minutes or so. However, around the twenty minute mark, an episode of "That Girl" cut into "Route 66." I started fast-fowarding only to find an episode of "I Love ...

[img] You know, have you ever watched any silent films of Betty Balfour? The reason why I ask you this question is that she was the most British popular in 1920s. Unfortunately, we can find only one film, Champagne (Personally I do not like because am displeased that Alfred Hitchock made a comedy f...

Welcome to Nitrateville! US and Canada-wise, the only Laurel and Hardy title available on blu-ray is "Babes in Toyland" (AKA March of the Wooden Soldiers). It was put out by Legend Films, and it includes both the original B+W and colorized versions. Ironically, this is a case where the consensus is ...

Here's the link to the Las Vegas Sun obituary: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/dec/15/las-vegas-man-who-acted-silent-films/ I was surprised to find out that this gentleman was one of the children seen with Buster Keaton at the beginning of "The General." The article has a few interesting commen...

Gagman, Wow :o Claroscureaux's work is impressive. It does put us to shame to some degree. My only reservation about it is that it may be too good and too vivid. It reminds me of some of those film restorations where all of the film grain is removed. Yes, you get an incredibly clean image, but at th...

The only print of the 1921 DISRAELI that I am aware of is housed at the Eastman House in Rochester, NY. It was screened in 1947 to celebrate GEH's 25th anniversary but, alas, it was not preserved and as of 2004 when I inquired as to the film's status I was told that about one reel's worth of bits a...

Bob, I'm afraid to say that Mr. Arliss is still seriously considering Film Classics in Color's offer :wink: : http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa425/asiri358/disraeli2.jpg Mr. George Arliss and Louise Huff in "Disraeli" (1921) What is the survival status on the silent version of Disraeli? I've he...

LC, :o That's great. Hope you don't mind. I kind of tinkered with your STREET ANGE L still a bit as somehow you had Janet Gaynor looking rather hefty with an extended costume. Not all of that was her. I also reverted to the colors I had used previously on that outfit. Most of it is intact as you ha...

I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but Buster Keaton and Joe E. Brown had previously worked together in the Screen Director's Playhouse television program "The Silent Partner." It's not too bad as I remember. For anyone interested, it's available on archive.org. Truth be told, even though I get M...

I've been busy lately with work, but I should have a little more time with the Christmas holidays coming up soon. Here's a still of Stan and Ollie that I just finished work on. "Nothing But Trouble" isn't one of their better films, but it does have a few nice moments in it. http://i1197.photobucket....

Little Caesar, I don't know how to tell you this but Marcelline has decided to accept our offer and come over to OHIC: http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx129/rmf27/marceline-mgmcopy_edited-1.jpg Actually, this was just a little experiment to see if I can figure out how to add text to an image. :w...

LC, Yes, there are legitimate schools of thought on restoration. To apply to another medium, some people prefer old time radio broadcasts with all the pops, clicks and noise that make them sound old. Others want them cleaned up (I'm in that camp) so they can better enjoy the content. Re Barrymore's...

LC, It's fine that you want a washed out look for an artistic reason, perhaps as a form of antiquing, but I like to make each still look as if it was just taken - or more accurately, as though we lived back then and the photo is new. It's all a matter of interpretation and that's what makes looking...