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What elements were used for Psycho and The Birds transfers? OCN or finegrain/IP? (with the exception of The Birds opticals, of course) Mr. Harris, you wrote in 2012 that the Vertigo Bluray could have been made perfect at that time. Has this been finally achieved with the UHD, or are there still...

I explored that "Twilight Time Archive" link and could only find low-resolution images. It also doesn't list all the titles. "Picnic" is missing.

I'll second that. The DVD and Blu-ray mixes sound overall very faithful to the original, but a few things oddly disappeared in it. I recall offhand that an airport PA announcement ("American Airlines, Flight..."), Thornhill's disgusted sound when he finds the hospital door locked, and perhaps...

I know they were deteriorating. But given that they survived in magnetic form, the fidelity is incomparably better than that of the music on the old optical, many-generationed prints.

There's nothing to "restore" the original mono with. The Blu-ray's mono track originates from the beat-up optical track of 1958 theatrical prints. Lossless audio of this would result in an extremely marginal, perhaps unnoticeable difference. As Mr. Harris has explained over the years, the...

Some basics are in order here, which a simple web search will let you know. Vertigo was filmed in VistaVision. That captures an image 8 perforations wide, twice the area of standard 35mm movie film. It results in much more than 4k of data. Hitchcock's North by Northwest, also filmed in...

This sounds very intriguing. Is the tower sequence at the end still too light, like the Blu-ray? I recall RAH's commentary that 1958 Technicolor prints rendered those scenes darker, that Hitchcock wanted to emphasize flashes of jewelry, and that's what he went for in the 1996 restoration; the...

Read the thread "A few words about... the image and audio restoration of Vertigo and DVD" from Oct. 8, 2005. Dialogue and sound effects were plucked from vintage release prints' optical tracks. There was no other usable source. New effects were also employed. They were then all mixed with the...