Natural grain, minimal processing, if any. I like that Vinegar Syndrome is willing to let film look rough instead of pursuing current demands for flawlessness.
Seeds / Vapors (Vinegar Syndrome)
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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 suffer from the same subtitle problems.
Video quality, though, is very nice.
The Saragossa Manuscript (Yellow Veil)
Restored to death by The Chimney Pot. No grain, but a layer of dissolving fine noise on top instead. An overall smeary look. Not worth watching.
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):
Interestingly, while the above splice got a sloppy repair, lots of messy original splices later in the movie were allowed to remain.