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Bill: Here's a link to the complete script from Mystery of the Wax Museum. http://www.geocities.com/classicmovi...cript/qWAX.htm Then you can go to some nice warm place, and I don't mean California. :D I found a free image hoster, so enjoy a frame from the "Bal Masque" scene:

If the material was found, Photoplay may revise their restoration (which could offer an opportunity for them to re-do the speed changes). Carl Davis recorded extra score material in case the 16mm scenes were found in 35mm quality.

Turner Classic Movies is showing the raw Photoplay transfer (without Scott MacQueen's additional work)... It's a magnificent transfer, but I'm stunned by the amount of specks, splice lines, and other blemishes that were removed by Scott MacQueen's team for the DVD.

I've seen both the TCM transfer (which is the laserdisc one) and also the VHS for Ben-Hur. I found that the ghosting for Phantom is actually less "visible" on my laptop's DVD-ROM than a tube TV. If this is "worse" than the MK2-Warner Chaplin discs, the Chaplin ought to look wonderful on DVD.

A lot of the silents on DVD that are speed corrected have some of this blurring. I know I've seen similar blurring on other Photoplay restorations like Ben-Hur.

I watched the Photoplay version last night and here's my take: First, the blurring isn't bad at all. I've seen a lot of silent films with this kind of blurring...it's really not that annoying. The clarity of the picture really surprised me. It's amazing what Brownlow and Gill (and McQueen)...

Laugh Clown Laugh and The Unknown will be NTSC. The transfers that have aired on TCM are extremely good (While The Unknown has wonderful photographic quality, it does have plenty of film damage due to it being from the only surviving print!)

The motion blur may not be PAL conversion, but an artifact of the slowed down frame speed.

Thanks, Jack, for clearing that stuff up.

I meant that the source SMP video is a 24fps system. Thus, each frame of film is captured intact... Basically, every frame is saved in the system and can later be converted to NTSC or PAL.

The Photoplay restoration required the multiple frame rates mainly because of the mix of footage from both versions. The 1925 version likely can be run at one speed.