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Song of the South - 35mm project (V1 released)

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Hello everyone!
I’m very glad to annouce the release of a new 35mm version of Song of the South, which as far as I know, is the best way to watch the movie as of 2023! Unlike other versions such as Notelu’s restoration, in this release I used Thunderbean’s recent 35mm scan, which is much cleaner and has better color than the previous scan.
Here’s what was done to create this version:

  1. Thunderbean’s scan was slightly cropped to get rid of the rounded corners, which look quite bad.
  2. Missing scenes patched up from the old 16mm scan, which I color corrected to match the 35mm better.
  3. For the audio, the same missing scenes were patched from the BBC broadcast audio.
  4. A minor color correction has been done on the 35mm scan to fix some brightness/contrast issues
  5. Video and audio multiplexed using MKVToolNix

Released on MySpleen, and I can send you direct download links in PM. Feel free to upload this anywhere you want.

Hope you all enjoy!

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working”
-The wind in the willows

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Some folks on MySpleen complained about interlacing artifacts I didn’t notice. An updated version to fix that is coming, I’ll let you all know when it’s done.

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working”
-The wind in the willows

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CMGF said:

Some folks on MySpleen complained about interlacing artifacts I didn’t notice. An updated version to fix that is coming, I’ll let you all know when it’s done.

Where would interlacing artifacts have been introduced here? Isn’t everything print-sourced?

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Yes everything is print sourced, the interlacing was a mistake on my end but I didn’t notice it because of VLC’s automatic deinterlacing. I’m currently re-doing this release to fix that, it should take me several days.

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working”
-The wind in the willows