Occasional magnetic grain. For this sample, I had to convert from AVC to H265 to get a small file size, but it’s still visible. This was the most glaring bit of magnetic grain on the UHD.
Compression or bad restoration, it’s impossible to tell which. Still, watchable.
Most of the supplements, including Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) are 1080i upscales.
The technicians used interpolation in an attempt to remove all splices at each cut on the top of the frame:
And on the bottom:
Sometimes, retouching at the bottom doesn’t match at all, causing explicit screen tearing:
Retouching is so poor that the cement line is still present. Leave the flaw alone if you can’t do a flawless repair:
Frame blending on thrown grapes:
Full-frame interpolation. Not only is it ugly, at full speed, the picture appears to freeze:
See the mark that disappears in the upper-left corner? That’s part of the texture and supposed to be there:
Interpolation:
Interpolated spot repair propagates the scratch:
In motion, interpolation looks completely unnatural. Replacing one flaw with another is not an improvement.
Processed by Lithuanian Film Centre.
Edit 1/20/26 : The color looks absolutely bizarre. Is this really what it actually looks like? (I HAVE MY DOUBTS.)
No complaints. Video looks good.
I really wish Vinegar Syndrome wouldn’t attach their noisy logo to the end of every movie, though.
For part 1, click here.
Disc 2 is a lot better, but not without errors.
Kino’s set is a mixed bag. Some movies look great. Others are restored to death. I’ll be focusing on the latter. I give lots of examples, but this post is by no means comprehensive.
Editing error:
Frozen, splotchy, misaligned cloning. Terrible in every way:
Some shots are untouched, but frozen cloning is pervasive:
Intertitles look super fake, but this one has an erroneous line peeking through:
Processed by Library of Congress and Dayton Digital Filmworks.
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