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  1. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Thank YOU! Regardless of everything done to create a perfect print, it all comes down to quality projection. Without it, nothing that we’ve done matters.
  2. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Twin peaks and I believe the big Star Wars boxed set. Value Electronics.
  3. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    A bit more complex, as a decision must be made whether to use the real estate in spherical or anamorphic. MFL remains spherical.
  4. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Those thousands of 70mm clip were cut by hand by my long-time assistant Joanne and her wife Linda. They were quite particular, and hundreds of feet of that first AP ended up as trash. The overall concept of that boxed set came from CBS-Fox exec Ken Ross. A class act. The set also contained a...
  5. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Hope they get the Mean Girls aspect ratio correct at 1.85. It’s a rough one.
  6. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Masking, and size relationship. Aspect ratios are merely numbers, which do not reflect anything else.
  7. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Very few theaters have proper maskings, and even fewer are able to run 2.21:1. If you’d like to see film properly projected, visit the Bedford Playhouse. Running Ben-Hur Roadshow in April in 2.76:1.
  8. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    You got used to it. It was Gene’s guest appearance, a bit like mine in Lawrence.
  9. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    There should be nothing in MFL that appears awkward or unusual in 4k. A few of the hairpieces always looked odd. There are no tech problems in the original photography. A few attributes were fixed that were a bit too highly resolved derived from the 8k scan, but if anything appears odd, it’s a...
  10. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Actually, far worse than anyone might imagine.
  11. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    I can only relate from personal experience the amount of frustration, angst and wasted time, attempting to get my own credits straightened out. I’ve given up, as some important projects which once appeared, are now missing.
  12. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Understood. WB delivered c. 200 cartons of elements to CBS in 1971. About a third of those were junked, as unnecessary. Not an unusual occurrence for the era.
  13. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Many of the extras carried over for the 4k, were originally prepared for the 2015 CBS Blu-ray. Elements such as the 70mm prints of lighting (rain) tests and Mr. Hyde-White fitted with a hairpiece. WB was extremely helpful in searching their vaults for anything that remained as bits of MFL...
  14. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Ms Hepburn pre-recorded all of the songs, but the ones that you'll hear are made up from lines, bits, pieces and phrases, with Ms Nixon adding the finishings touches to Loverly. I've mentioned this before, that during the many attempted takes at recording sessions, what shines through is Ms...
  15. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    The prints were heavy in Y in an attempt to hide fade.
  16. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Whatever you’re seeing should be part of the sequential movement between frames. If you perceive “ringing” it’s your setup.
  17. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    MFL played the Ziegfeld in 70mm. About 20 prints were struck. Played major US cities, and also Toronto, which is a neighbor to the north.
  18. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    What is being reported as “smearing” - presuming the artifacts are all during pans, might be picket-fencing, a problem endemic to shots of 24fps or less. Shooting at 30fps (Todd-AO) seems to solve. Since this is not a tele-Cine, all work is performed with individual still frames. The film has...
  19. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    The OCN was already faded in the early ‘80s.
  20. Robert Harris

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady-- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Not certain about that because of 30fps. DCPs, especially at 500 mb/s are spectacular. As to the image harvest, Ok is derived from an IP, which is fine.
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