Another good transfer from the American Film Theatre series. Watching the long version, it’s fascinating to see the brutal editing they did to get it to three hours. The cut portions, unsurprisingly, don’t match particularly well, but the sound is consistent throughout. Very nice.
Looks great. No complaints.
Very nice color scan of a tinted print. In rough shape, but grain looks natural and no restoration artifacting. No complaints about the encoding. Looks great!
I already had the Eureka release of The Oyster Princess (1919), so I didn’t watch Kino’s encode, but it has the same wonderful score.
Meyer from Berlin (1919) is transferred at 18fps and encoded at 24fps. From EYE Filmmuseum.
Some pretty ugly repairs-frozen cloning, interpolation, microloops-but they’re not pervasive. For the most part, though, it’s not excessively processed. Grain is intact and it looks ok. Given that the final result still has lots of damage, the repairs were a waste of effort.
Misaligned, frozen cloning:
Wall texture retouched to oblivion:
Nearly a freeze frame:
Interpolation and disappearing rope:
Madame Dubarry is transferred mostly at 20fps and encoded at 24fps.
Natural grain. No unnecessary processing, no artifacting. Occasional hard subs are lamentable, but looks great overall. From the Cinémathèque de Toulouse.
Strike runs at 19fps and is encoded at 24fps. New English video intertitles.