Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Blu-ray - Beyond The Darkness, US, 2011 (1979), Shriek Show (SSBD-1005)


Licensed by Variety Communications, Italy. (1)

FPS: 23.976

Aspect Ratio: 1.78
Region: A

Film

2010 Interpositive from the 16mm Original Camera Negative. (2)

Transfer
No official information but it's clearly a Telecine.

Color Correction / Restoration

Color Correction and Restoration at Heavy Light Digital, New York, US. (3)

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Blu-ray - Zombi Holocaust, UK, 2015 (1980), 88 Films (88FB104)


Zombie Holocaust was transferred in HD from the Original Negative in Italy to .DPX files. These were shipped on hard drive to Pinewood Studios where they were conformed, the overcut splices were removed, graded, stabilized and extensive automated and hand clean up was performed. No Noise reduction was performed at any stage of this process. The English and Italian audio was transferred to 24 bit .wav and synced up in Pinewood. H264 Compression was at a constant bit rate of 35Mbps to achieve optimal quality. (1)
Licensed by Variety Communications, Italy. (2)

FPS: 23.976

Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Region: B

Film

2-perf 35mm (Techniscope) Original Camera Negative. (3)

Transfer

2K Telecine at Eurolab, Rome, Italy. (4)
- At least one scene is sourced from the old LVR Video Telecine.


Color Correction / Restoration
Color Correction and Restoration at Pinewood Studios, London, UK.


- This release has quite a huge grain structure which is normal since 2-perf (2.35) film stock was used to shoot this 1.85 movie. Basically, the left and right side of the exposed film was discarded in order to get an aspect ratio of 1.85, then the film was scalled by about 28% in order to fill the height of the destination resolution which in this case is 1080p.


References:
1. Page 01 of included booklet.
2. Back cover.
3. May 19 2015 88 Films Facebook Post on the restoration of Zombie Holocaust, image of the post here.
4. PM from 88 Films.






Saturday, July 4, 2015

Blu-ray - The Beyond, US, 2015 (1981), Grindhouse Releasing (GRD011)


FPS: 23.976
Aspect Ratio: 2.35
Region: A

Film

2-perf 35mm (Techniscope) Original Camera Negative.
- The following 2 frames appear one after the other in the movie showing that at least 2 different elements were used to create this release.



Transfer
Telecine on a Cintel DSX at LVR Video, Rome, Italy. (1)

Color Correction / Restoration

No information.

References:






Friday, July 3, 2015

Blu-ray - Contamination, US, 2015 (1980), Arrow Video (AV013)


Contamination is presented in it's original aspect of 1.85:1 with mono sound.

Contamination has been exclusively restored in 2K resolution for this release by Arrow Films. The original camera negative was scanned in 2K resolution on a pin-registered Arriscan at L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna. The film was graded on the Baselight grading system at Deluxe Restoration, London.


Thousands of instances of dirt, debris and light scratches were removed through a combination of digital restoration tools. Image stability and density fluctuation issues were also improved.
 (1)


FPS: 23.976

Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Region: A+B/1+2

Film

35mm Original Camera Negative.

Transfer
Pin-registered 2K Scan on an Arryscan at L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, Italy.

Color Correction / Restoration

Color Correction and Restoration on Baselight at Deluxe, London, UK.

References:

1. Page 18-19 of included booklet.