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Post #1665008

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SpringBoob SquirePin
Parent topic
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Original Theatrical Reconstruction (In progress)
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Date created
14-Oct-2025, 9:02 PM

I can’t speak to how the movie looks on other 35mm prints, but Thunderbean’s open matte scan has only eight (yes, I counted) open matte shots in it. Hardly worth including the entire scan, even as a “bonus.” You’re better off either switching from the hard matte scenes to open matte in one transfer, or just compiling all of the open matte scenes together in one video, so people can at least see those scenes in the taller frame.

Here are those scenes: