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Benny’s Bathtub (Deaf Crocodile)

Deaf Crocodile’s BD of Benny’s Bathtub (1971) does not have a proper subtitle track, only closed captioning:

Typos:

Poor placement:

Additionally, the timing is poor. Lines appear too early, stay too long, and overlap dialog. All this makes following the movie very difficult.

The included episodes of Cirkleen don’t use closed captioning, but suffer from the same subtitle problems.

Video quality, though, is very nice.

Rabid Grannies (Vinegar Syndrome)

The restoration isn’t heavily scrubbed, but the beginning has a flurry of interpolated repairs. You can see the picture slightly freeze in this brief clip (slow playback to .25x and it becomes obvious):

Clipped directly from the BD.
Fully interpolated frame.
Splotchy interpolated cloning.
Fully interpolated frame.
Interpolated screen tearing at top of frame to “repair” messy splice.

Interestingly, while the above splice got a sloppy repair, lots of messy original splices later in the movie were allowed to remain.