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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: March 30, 2024, 08:56:04 PM »
More posts worth revisiting:
Rather than "almost four years ago, they're now almost 11 and a half years ago...
And since there wasn't much to say about today's quote, I want to revisit these posts from almost four years ago because they related to the current scene:There seems to be more picture information on all four sides of the 4x3. Was NoDS shot open-matte?
Yes, NODS was shot open matte, but the frames MB posted with the drawing are not identical frames. On the Blu-ray, I went to the same frame that MB posted from the VHS. The Blu-ray has very slightly more picture information on both the left and right sides as compared to the VHS. (And since this seems to confirm that the old video transfer was essentially "open frame", that explains why the DVD that I made from my laserdisc ended up looking pleasantly framed when I would watch it in zoom mode on my widescreen TV. It's essentially what the original intended to look like in the theaters.)The old VHS/LD transfer was nearly open matte. It's a 1.33 extraction from the frame, but it's not quite edge to edge. As a result, it doesn't show quite as much on the left and right as is possible, but does show more top and bottom than is meant to be seen. In an overhead shot of Angelique hanging, you can see at the very bottom of the frame the edge of the cherry picker that the camera is on, and in the piano scene at the beginning, you can briefly spot the floor mic poking into frame on the left....
I have to say, though, that even though I had noticed while watching the VHS version on my computer (while getting screen caps) that occasionally the edge of something that looked like it might be metal of some sort sneaked into frame at the very bottom of some of the overheard shots during the hanging scene -
- I never would have guessed it was the edge of the cherry picker - and quite honestly more often than not I don't even pay attention to that sort of stuff because I'm too caught up in the story and paying attention to the characters.
Whoa - the hanging of Angelique is far less moody on the NoDS VHS without the color correction! But then, I've mentioned elsewhere in this topic that for a few different reasons I can barely even stand to look at the NoDS VHS now that I have the Blu-ray...
(ADMIN: Edited to replace VHS capture with a Laser Disc capture)
Rather than "almost four years ago, they're now almost 11 and a half years ago...
Whoa - the hanging of Angelique is far less moody on the NoDS VHS without the color correction! But then, I've mentioned elsewhere in this topic that for a few different reasons I can barely even stand to look at the NoDS VHS now that I have the Blu-ray...
Yes, the Blu-ray of NoDS is really something quite gorgeous. Gosh, I'm going to have to pop it into the player again sometime soon!