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I'm curious as to what happened to the audio track on "The Lion In Winter"? Where's the bass? I have an older release and the difference in the title music is night and day. The lowest octaves are totally missing on the new release. It almost sounds as if someone forgot to apply the proper...

Just a heads up: This release has serious audio issues. It has absolutely no bass. It's like they took the original mag masters and forgot to apply the proper NAB audio curve to it. The lower octaves are completely absent, most noticble on music and effects. I have the earlier bluray...

It was a full coat (35mm with magnetic oxide across the full width) element which was used extensively for mastering. From Wikipedia, describing Command records use of 35mm fullcoat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Records Movie studios often employed the same technology for audio...

I scan them and use them in my home brew MySql / PHP media inventory app.

2.55:1 was the standard AR for 'Scope magnetic sound prints since there was no optical track to take up space on the print. The center line of the image was also slightly different. 2.35:1 was the standard for AR for 'Scope optical sound prints. When Fox introduced MagOptical prints back in...

They likely did, but you you were only seeing maybe 70 % of the actual height of the frame on the film at the horizontal center point of the image due to the way the aperture plates had to be cut to avoid having the image spill off the top and bottom of the screen.

It was shown on a "curved" screen but the depth of curve was nowhere near what was used for Cinerama. It was much closer to what was used for CinemaScope. IMHO Smilebox on Todd-AO would be a travesty. If you had seen what had to be done with aperture plates to present the single strip...

Yes it did. I had a 35mm IB Tech print long ago that definitely had the Perspecta tones on it. I also had a DIY Perpecta Sound integrator back then. None of the few prints I had survived, either going vinegar or going pink, so I got rid of my 35mm titles and equipment about 25 years ago.

Simple, because 16mm, 8mm and S8mm Kodachrome and Ektachrome were reversal film stocks. So there was no negative to return. I still have a (working) home brew 8mm, S8mm and 16mm film transfer system and also have a Nikon scanner that can scan slides and 35mm still film negatives. The 8mm /...

They are not doing that. They are simply merging both fields (actually called segments in the PsF standards) into a single frame which results in the original source frame rate. Easy peasy as that's exactly the same process required to deinterlace a standard 60i video stream.

Since the base media for UHD is still bluray, I don't see any reason that they can't do the same thing for a 4K UHD release that they did with the previous Oklahoma! bluray. Just encode it in the 29.97 FPS PsF (Progressive Segmented Frame) format. Update: (Looks like they already did this...

I was a teenager in Honolulu HI. and saw the Cinestage version of '80 Days' at the Kaiser Aluminum Dome many many times. I knew the manager and attended many a weekend matinee there. I got to know the projectionists (yes, it was a two man booth and the only one in the territory) very well...

Yes, but in back of those curtains, most likely there was also adjustable masking. Curtains were almost never used to mask the actual image as they were never black and rarely if ever was the edge of the curtain a perfectly straight line. A photo from one of my previous home theatres showing...

Took a further look and it's a close call. Can't measure the wagon wheels accurately because they are sunk into the dirt at the bottom. The clock face in the commanders office is still slightly taller than it is is wide, but that could depend on how high the camera was that took the shot. So...

Unfortunately, the ratio of the height to the width of the frame is not a good indicator of whether the actual content of the frame is in the original correct aspect ratio or not. Any video editing program allows the use of controls to scale the height and or width of the output frame and to...

It's possible, but in another shot that had a clock face on it, I observed the that it was also slightly oval on the BD, while it was round on the streaming version. In any case it's not really a big deal most most viewers. On my 2.76:1 constant height screen setup using the 2.20:1 setting...

Well here are your screen shots. Make sure you click on the first screen shot and page through them to easily see the differences. The stream: The BD: Video Scopes: The stream: The BD: Notice that the color balance wasn't changed between the two versions, although the stream exibited...