thxita said:

It would be the first time in the history of Italian dubbing to have a re-dub after only two years from the first release, but then again this film did have a peculiar story on its Italian distribution.

What I meant wasn't necessarily a complete re-dub, but if the re-release in Italy was the same cut as in the rest of the world, quite much added audio content had to be recorded.

thxita said:

About the SEN scene, I find it very nice... playing with the kids and everything. It shows that he's not a villain, I never considered him to be one but that scene surely adds more humanity to the character.

I agree, but I think the scene as it now stands also conveys that idea, but the additional dialogue there is nice.

Spaced Ranger said:

It's very hard to twiddle dials and eye-ball it. Every adjustment affects everything else, and the mind's eye further interferes with the perception of the results. We need something more definitive ... like a fade-fingerprint™ of a film's present state of deterioration to calculate a counter-fade self-correction. But until then ... cheat! :)

Yeah, it was just sort of a quick fix to see what could be done with it, I've also little experience in color correction and with such filters in VirtualDub so any help is appreciated. I don't know if the fading is consistent to this in the rest of the print but I guess so, but what we come up with can be of great help when/if Puggo is about to work on it.

I have not posted a raw clip of this. Don't recall what codec is needed for the avi at the moment but I believe you need a DV codec istalled, the video is 29.970fps so it will require pulldown and the audio is captured separately. The size of the file is just 724 MB. I'll see if I can PM you the links later today.