These look absolutely brilliant.  I stumbled across some info on these releases a few nights ago and have been reading/catching up non-stop on all the release notes, etc.  I created an account here just so I could acknowledge Harmy personally for all his hard work.  The few screen caps/videos I watched looked mighty fine, now I just need to find the best way to get them downloaded over here.

Great work Harmy, damn great work.

This sounds good Harmy

How about skin tones?

J

I am trying to catch up on this thread, but so little time and so much to read. This looks like a fantastic project! Can anyone point me in the direction of the WP ? I would love to see it.

That's such good news Harmy! Now we'll know for sure that each scene will really look like the original. :)

Yeah that's kinda what I meant, it will look like the original, not 100% but close enough considering your sources and tools.

Okay, I'll get this out of the way now so no one has to later.

<<Ahem>>

Can you share those frames, Harmy?  I can't believe you're hoarding all of this reference material for yourself.  What happened to community?!  WAH!  My sense of entitlement.

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

Any chance those are 4k scans BTW?

I don't know. To some extent, I understand not sharing very specific, high-quality sources (for the same reason a newspaper doesn't share its sources) but I can also see your point of view. Either way, I'm just glad someone is getting to see the sources. :)

^ Problem is to be considered the definitive preservation project you need access to material no one has, but those who have it have gone on record that they won't share it, yet now they have, and although we have no way of verifying this, it is supposedly the way to get closer to the 'original'.  It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't.  If you do work with the material but not tell anyone your source, who's going to believe your original is more original.  If you do use the material and alert everyone to it's existence then you need to make a stand, which you can't prove to anyone.  (in the short term, maybe)  I agree it makes you laugh, but not in a ha ha ha way but in a we are wasting many many many many hours of our lives.  That's phunnie in my book, it makes you laugh but it's mostly tragicly sad.  We're at the hands of a system which is keeping us stupid.

^ And that is the important point I tried to make. Newspapers actively canvas for sources, and no-one gives them a hard time. As someone trying to do the same thing with a different film, I know how difficult it is to get sources, and how much work you have to do once you find it. That is why I think Harmy is A-OK for keeping his sources secret. It is a sad fact that that kind of mentality does hinder the creative process, but that's just how it is IMHO.

I agree.  Guys, please do not subject us to this bickering about sharing of confidential sources.  I think a lot of people forget that we are, in fact, dealing with copyrighted material, and do not have any legal claims to it whatsoever.  Though the appalling treatment the films have received at the hand of their owner is an outrage on many levels, we must keep in mind that these kinds of projects are legally dubious at best, and that access to high quality materials under such conditions depends entirely on the secretive generosity and good will of individuals who do not want attention drawn to them—and that violation of this would only cause them to clam up and refuse any further aid to those with such a misplaced sense of entitlement.

That said, I'm really glad to know that such references exist and are being put to the best possible use, in a way that I and many others will be able to benefit from.  :)

On an unfortunate note, every time I've tried to obtain the latest workprint the download has failed for some reason, so I have not yet been able to view it.  I'll keep trying, I guess, because I'm eager to see the latest improvements.

Can anyone hit me up with a myspleen invite?