ReinaChannel a long time ago had uploaded some footage from
Kyoto that is color stock from 1934. I just got the link the other
day and finally had time to watch it. I hope you enjoy.
And there are some good related links as well.
Pookybear
Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 11:05 pm
by Jack Theakston
I'm pretty sure this footage is from the three-strip Fitzpatrick travelogue CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME IN JAPAN, which is actually from 1936 (photographed in '35).
Kyoto
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 12:52 am
by moviepas
It looks very much like Fitzpatrick's films to me. WAC are apparently planning a box set of the Travelogues for a release sometime soon.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:05 am
by All Darc
Is that a tranfer from technicolor master, like internegatives separation masters, or a tranfer from a vintage technicoilor print?
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:20 pm
by Jack Theakston
Dick May can probably answer the question since he was in charge of those materials at one point, but to my eye, this footage looks like it was from a new IP recombined from the camera negatives.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:44 pm
by Richard P. May
The Fitzpatricks had been converted from 3-strip to CRI negatives. Most of the original negatives burned up in the Eastman House fire in 1978. Protection positives had been made before that, so they were the source of the CRIs.
Some of them were beautiful, others not so much. You can't really tell from this TV copy.
It's been so long since I've seen CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME... that I'll defer to Jack's guess as to whether that is what this clip is from.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:06 pm
by pookybear
Jack Theakston wrote:I'm pretty sure this footage is from the three-strip Fitzpatrick travelogue CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME IN JAPAN, which is actually from 1936 (photographed in '35).
Thank you for the information. I have never seen the Cherry
Blossom Time in Japan. Most interesting, I shall have to view a
copy of that footage.