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| It certainly makes sense to change the projection speed of a film, by analogy with the tempo of music; but in order for this effect to work as intended, the film has to be shot at a very constant speed. |
It's just a matter of common sense. For example, when you show Birth of a Nation at 24fps, it looks like a Keystone Kops short. On the other hand, you might not want to speed correct a Keystone Kops short because faster speeds were OK.
If it looks inappropriate, fix it by correcting the speed.
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The Kino Keatons are a mixed bag. They're kind of soft for the most part. However, Seven Chances looks almost brand new and it's progressive. The General and Steamboat Bill Jr. were improved for an Image/Film Preservation Associates double-feature utilizing remasters (both look incredible) and Alloy Orchestra scores.
However, I think nearly every film has a Robert Israel score (a few shorts have Gaylord Carter organ scores, like Cops).
It's probably too late considering that the 11-disc set still sells well, but a new box set utilizing brand new HD transfers for all films would be neat... especially since the majority of the transfers are 10+ years old by now. Problematic films like The Boat (has some serious nitrate decomposition in spots) and The Electric House (dupey surviving print) could be improved greatly with newer restoration software.
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Most of the Kino Keatons were ports of the laserdiscs, but Shepard did upgrade a few that came up with superior elements after the LD were issued.
My problem with the PAL/NTSC conversions is not speed up for the most part due to the hand-cranking issues, but ghosting, where you see two frames at once, which looks terrible to my eye and makes things smeary where they should be crystal clear. I'd much rather watch the Image DVDs of the Chaplins, even though they haven't been spruced up with DVNR.
Kino's problem with the materials it gets from Brownlow and the BFI is that silents sell too few copies to put much expense into them; thus if there's a PAL master they're only too willing to go with that rather than do a new native NTSC transfer, even if it would look much better.
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| Kino's problem with the materials it gets from Brownlow and the BFI is that silents sell too few copies to put much expense into them; thus if there's a PAL master they're only too willing to go with that rather than do a new native NTSC transfer, even if it would look much better. |
I don't think Kino has released a single DVD from Photoplay or the BFI. Milestone has the Photoplay Productions remasters (Phantom of the Opera, The Blot, The Chess Player, etc.) as well as some BFI (Picadilly). Milestone apparently converts the PAL masters into progressive NTSC (at least on Phantom).
Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece
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