There are no dumb questions...only dumb answers
The lost scenes are very interesting, and the audience responds very strongly to quite a few...its just that particular one, I felt was hard for the audience to see the immediate difference when I showed it. I think any audience has to take a leap of imagination when viewing these scenes to judge their success and impact. Music and sound effects are crucial to a horror film, and when stripped of that and the dialogue and the color, you really have to imagine how they will play when fully restored...
I do usually introduce each scene and comment during it...
As for the black and white....The long directors cut exists in a black and white work print and in 3 sets of black and white separation master positives. These master positive elements when printed on top of the same piece of negative film stock, using the appropriate yellow, cyan and magenta filters, will produce a new full color film negative of the entire directors cut.
It's not colorization, its the way color films are preserved, when done properly. Its similar to the Technicolor process in that respect...The WIZARD OF OZ camera negative isn't 1 color negative, but three black and white ones that each were exposed with respective RED, GREEN, and BLUE filters to record that part of the spectrum...NODS' isn't Technicolor and the original negative is a one-strip Eastmancolor negative. The existing color negative is only of the butchered PG version. Thank whoever it was back in 1971 that made the black and white protection masters, otherwise color restoration would be totally impossible.
We have a tape of the black and white workprint. The color film will not be recreated and restored until Turner agrees to do it.
The schedule is always a surprise and always has some differences when you get the final program...Once we're closer to the date and I've been told for certain the day and time, I'll post it. I'm 70% sure of Sat.
The hotel's full and now booking rooms in the overflow hotels, so if you haven't booked rooms yet, by all means do so soon!