CINEFEST 2013 reports

[LouieD]

The pre-restoration footage is at a FAR higher contrast, and the human eye perceives that as sharper. (This is one of the reasons that ultra-high contrast Technicolor prints often appear sharper than they actually are, but that's another story.) The problem with that contrast is that gray tones and valuable picture information were being lost in the mush, so it desperately needed some help.

I lowered the contrast and restored some gray tone to it. The restored footage was also run just a hair out of focus the whole way (which was a bit disappointing, although understandable).

I assure you that the film was scanned at the very highest resolution possible and output the same way.

I got a Kickstarter project funded on this premise, and I didn't want anyone to cry FOUL and ask for money back. I'll happily post pictures of before and after to show how this was done, although I know many readers here blanch at technical things being shared!

Eric

Bah, no need to explain, the chapter was REALLY enjoyable and above all FUN!

Now about that El Brendel film......................................

[Jim Roots]

Chris, we saw Behind the Door at Saginaw in 1998.

Did Sports In Many Lands show hockey?


Jim

Nope. Thoroughbred racing, diving, outrigger canoeing, polo, cockfighting.

There was also some surfing in the Hawaiian segment. There was a foxhunt, I think in England, as well (which had some of the best-looking color of the whole short and other fragments).

And people consider those to be sports? >snort<

Watch your chiclets, kid. I'm comin' down your lane, and my stick ain't on the ice.

Jim
(It's just a broken leg. Stick a needle in it and put me back out there, coach!)

[syd]

THE QUARTERBACK (1926)

Another Paramount Pictures Richard
Dix and Esther Ralston pairing. I posted
a clip from Womanhandled (1925)
recently. So nice to hear that this
one survives too.

THE WHIP (1917)

Maurice Tourneur's visual sense was second
to none (D.W. Griffith included). The
burglary sequence from Alias Jimmy Valentine
(1915) and the sequence in The Blue Bird
(1918) when everyday household items and elements
come to life are evidence

[Zoetrope]

Just curious......are there other films, like Partners Again, where the only known copy is on 8mm? I have always just assumed that anything on 8mm must be available in 16mm or 35mm.

[Richard M Roberts]

Just curious......are there other films, like Partners Again, where the only known copy is on 8mm? I have always just assumed that anything on 8mm must be available in 16mm or 35mm.

Guess Again. (Though oddly enough, apparently a 16mm print of PARTNERS AGAIN just turned up at LOC).


RICHARD M ROBERTS