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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: November 21, 2023, 04:52:00 PM »
Another post relayed to Scene 84 that's definitely worth revisiting:
But now that I have the Laser Disc, again it's quite interesting how much sharper the Laser Disc (a capture from which I've added to reply #245 and reposted above in reply #1366) is compared to the VHS -
Laser VHS
- particularly notice the difference in the mirror's reflection and the candles in the candelabra....
... a video of how the score in Scene 84 on the DVD/Blu-ray has an obvious cut -
(Cut made at 7 sec.)
- that the VHS doesn't -
- and that's because the scene was obviously rescored after the cut footage was removed, and as such the score is slightly different on the VHS than it is on the DVD/Blu-ray release. The full score that should play and does play in the 129 minute version is like this -
- because approximately 20 seconds was cut from the 129 minute version to help to shorten it per James Avery's order to DC. And what was cut has been discussed before, often with regard to this part of ProfStokes' post listing what recovered footage was shown at the 2004 Fest -..., Quentin discovering a sketch that Charles had made of Angelique, ...
-and as a reminder we actually see this sketch in the footage that is still in all versions of the film, but because the VHS shows much more at the bottom of the film's frames, it's much more visible on the VHS than it is on the DVD/Blu-ray. Last year I'd shared versions of both -...
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- and because I didn't have working video capturing software at the time, I had to share a photo I'd taken on a TV from the VHS. But now that I do have working video capturing software, this is what the VHS actually looks like -
(Click here for a 880X661 version)
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But now that I have the Laser Disc, again it's quite interesting how much sharper the Laser Disc (a capture from which I've added to reply #245 and reposted above in reply #1366) is compared to the VHS -
Laser VHS
- particularly notice the difference in the mirror's reflection and the candles in the candelabra....