Storm Over Asia (Flicker Alley)

Two main issues: broken pulldown and microloops. The source print is step-printed and the video was stretched further for the BD, resulting in a very clumpy pulldown. You can see the strobing at the climax is completely broken.

BD on left; corrected to 60fps on right.

The elements are there for a good presentation. Nice scan, nice encoding, no artifacting, but the technicians didn’t make the effort to fix the pulldown, even taking into consideration that they stretched to 24fps.

Microloops at

  • 00;46;49;38
  • 00;26;47;01
  • 00;36;06;55
  • 02;05;56;20

The source looks like a circulating repertory print with characteristic dirt buildup. I’m puzzled why Flicker Alley didn’t physically clean it before scanning.

Storm Over Asia runs at 6-24fps and is encoded at 24fps. The included Chess Fever is upscaled.

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