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- Robert Harris
Dr Griffin said:I finally got to sit down and watch the entire movie last night after coming out of the shock of spot checking the transfer the day before. The first scene looks like you are on set! I watched this on a Pioneer Kuro Plasma (like the complainer mentioned earlier), and I think the difference is being educated about what you are seeing. The only thing I can imagine that brought complaints of softness would be maybe not understanding focus within a scene or one brief instance (that is hardly worth mentioning) of what looked like lesser element usage. I do not think it looks softer than expected, in fact quite the opposite. The percussive soundtrack is now even more fantastic. The bells ring out in space more now. Drums deeply fill the soundstage. Truly marvelous presentation visually and aurally. The TODD-AO film that was mentioned before (could it be the one released the same year?), maybe could look this good or even better if there had been some forward thinking at that studio.
Afraid the Todd-AO production is too far gone (although apparently, Mr. Barber, having personally wound through the elements doesn't seem to agree). Too much chemical damage, fade and flicker, at least to my untrained eye.
Could it look this good.
Probably.
But I'd put a five million dollar, 18 month price tag on any restoration of that film to this quality.
RAH
