some interesting footage from Kyoto 1934 in color

pookybear · Post by **pookybear** » Sun May 22, 2011 8:47 pm

Hello everyone,

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

Jack Theakston · Post by **Jack Theakston** » Sun May 22, 2011 11:05 pm

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).

moviepas · Post by **moviepas** » Mon May 23, 2011 12:52 am

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.

All Darc · Post by **All Darc** » Mon May 23, 2011 11:05 am

Is that a tranfer from technicolor master, like internegatives separation masters, or a tranfer from a vintage technicoilor print?

Jack Theakston · Post by **Jack Theakston** » Mon May 23, 2011 1:20 pm

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.

Richard P. May · Post by **Richard P. May** » Mon May 23, 2011 3:44 pm

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.

pookybear · Post by **pookybear** » Mon May 23, 2011 4:06 pm

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.

Thank you,

Pookybear