I have Spider-Man (2000) on original VCD and it is open matte with the VFX shots pan and scanned. Spider-Man 2 is partially open matte as well, on DVD, but I don’t have either of them. I saw it on cable, I think. And I cannot record it either. Don’t have such equipment.
It’s sad to see the print go. Was very interested in getting it, well.
As for the 16mm, that will do as well I guess. Could you post some screenshots from it? Is it the same anamorphic widescreen print, or cropped to some other ratio? Anyway if you do get your hands on it and need others to contribute, let me know. I am interested to see how it looks before it can be restored.
Also, the full height and width of the print should be preserved in the scan. I have plans to make a 2.00:1 hybrid cut of Titanic using the open matte and the widescreen print source. The 35mm print had more vertical height than the widescreen dvd or blu ray. I hope the 16mm print had the same framing.
Please keep us updated. Thanks.
Let’s see what happens.
Hmm. Of course.
Jurassic Park trilogy is still available in Full Screen on DVD. Mostly open matte but some scenes are pan & scan. Cover art was the same as Wide Screen DVDs, except that the yellow widescreen label was replaced with a red fullscreen one. You can look at the original FS DVDs on Amazon below.
Jurassic World was shot on 35mm 4-perf full aperture as well as 65mm 5 perf. But no Full Screen version is available, neither open matte. I guess from 2009 onward Full Screen DVDs are no longer produced.
Fortunately the price has remained stable over the past several days. Let’s hope people get busy this weekend and forget about it ending Sunday night 😃. I typically do “snipe” bids in the last few seconds and am very successful. I can only remember losing a handful of eBay auctions in my life, and those were instances where the prices just climbed higher than I was willing to pay. (And yes, I have my iPad or phone setup as well as a PC in case the internet dies during the final seconds lol).
Thanks for keeping tab on it!
Ryan-SWI said:
Half Blood Prince is open matte.
Sent you a PM.
Thanks!
I can offer $ 75 USD, will that do, or do you think I should contribute more? My question is to all who are interested in contributing. In this way we’ll only need 7 people. We can do it guys.
Ryan-SWI, I don't know how to send PM in this revamped OT. Please tell me how.Anybody bidding on the film should, I think, bid on the very last 1/2 hour so as to avoid further bids. Also, I will contribute financially if someone buys it. It’s not an astronomical amount if even five or six people with jobs can contribute. Somebody has to get it shipped to their location and scanned. cpalmer2k can do it. I cannot buy it or get it scanned because I live in India and do not know anyone who scans motion picture reels. Plus India’s warm tropical climate is not ideal for preservation. Also, this is not the 2013 altered version. It’s the 1997 original version.
Don’t listen to his lies! 😉
What do you mean by “lies”? Did anything I say was a lie. A cropped 35mm is not the correct way to see the film which was shot in a taller 70mm ratio. The Blu Ray is sourced from the 70mm. I get that you like film grain, I do too. But 70mm prints are not chock full of grain like 35mm prints. they are very clean and the grain structure is super fine. resulting is a crisper image. Kubrick did not shoot in 35mm and then crop to 70.
I just realised that how fitting it is that a Titanic 35mm print goes up for auction at during early April, when the real R.M.S. Titanic liner made her maiden and final voyage across the Atlantic in 1912.
Anyway,
Time Left: 6 Days 1 hour (before bidding ends).
Bidding price now at US $547.00.
Yes, but does it make sense to use a print that is doubly cropped, when a larger high definition source is available. Another option may be to use the 35mm print as a colour reference and adjust the Blu-ray colours accordingly. In that case we get best of both the worlds and also the proper grain structure of a 70mm source from which the Blu-ray was struck.
If the print is a 35mm reduction one. Is the aspect ratio cropped vertically from 2.20:1 of the 70mm to 2.35:1 of the 35mm prints? I had read in some thread on OT that 35mm prints were cropped to cinemascope and one of those prints were used to make a home video by extracting a 2.20:1 version from that already cropped print.
ww12345, do you know?
I’m in on this one, if others are game. I saw this print myself and considered bidding on it when the end rolls around. Glad I saw this thread first. I narrowly missed another one about 2 weeks ago. It listed and sold for about $1,900 on a Buy it Now within a few hours of it being listed. The one time I didn’t check my eBay 😦
I’m no expert on film restoration, but I do know some people with access to professional film equipment and might could help line up some help if it is needed.
If you know people then it’s great. We just need more members to contribute that’s all. Try and spread the word in the forums, please.
P.S: Only 6 days left before bidding ends…
It’s not possible for me to get the film scanned and restored by myself. Such services are not exactly available for common people here. The best thing would be for someone to buy the print to their location using the contributed funds from other members. So, he/she can get it scanned and take the following steps. I can send funds, who else is with me? I got two interested parties already. We need more people. Let’s spread the word folks!
Maybe Poita can help. Someone should ask him and tell him there are members willing to contribute funds.
Also, the climate of where I live is too humid and hot. It’s not good for the print. Someone from US or other cold and dry nations can get the print shipped to their location.
Yes, thank you! It is! Just need more interested people so that we can contribute the sum to get the print, which looks great. But only 7 days remain.
There’s a 35mm anamorphic squeeze print of the 1997 James Cameron film up for sale at ebay -
Current bid:
US $361.00
Time left: 7 days
Print Located in United States.
One of the reasons I would like to see Titanic restored is because none of the Home video versions (including the Blu-ray) restore the original gold/purple toned color timing of the cinema release.
Also, the open matte version is cropped in the VFX shots, most noticeable when the ship leaves port. I compared the vertical height of this 35mm print to the open matte version and I found that in a lot of VFX shots, the print not only gains substantially at the sides, but the top height is almost the same).
The Print should be restored for archival purposes as well, I think. I would like to contribute if others are willing. Then somebody with the proper equipment can get it scanned, color corrected to match the projected print and judder-stabilised.
If anyone is interested to contribute and preserve it,
sound off with comments below!
P.S: Let me know if this is not the right section to make such posts.
SilverWook said:
The hardcover is one huge and heavy book!
I own the hardcover one (sans CD ROM and Film strips). Its very heavy, but quite impressive!
Fantastic! Finally in true open matte! The second clip looks much better. All the best!
You will either have to crop the top out, then adjust the aspect ratio, or you’ll have to crop the left side out and adjust the aspect ratio. As for rotoscoping, I don’t know how that’d be possible to do on all scenes. Disney pulled one on those planning to make fan edits.
Bigrob,
If you plan to get <span style=“text-decoration: underline;”>Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince</span> on Full Screen, can you upload that? Please reply. Thanks.
If you’re still interested, I recently bought the FS Half Blood Prince on DVD.
Great! I am still interested. How do you plan to share it?
I just noticed blu-ray.com removed 1.78 from the TFA 3D listing. Hopefully it’s a mistake or inaccuracy.
So, that means the IMAX version won’t be released on home video. That’s very very sad and frustrating seing as they advertised the IMAX version much before the film came out. Even released stills showing how much the scope version would be butchered. Now they are abandoning it? Hopefully J.J. will release it later like the Star Trek compendium set.
All the deleted scenes for “The Force Awakens” have timecodes on them on top of the video. I don’t know if this was done intentionally by the filmmakers but it will be very difficult to add them to the movie without too much cropping. I figured you’d need to either crop a lot of info at the top till the bottom portion of the timecodes vanish from the screen and then crop the sides to create a 2.40:1 aspect to match with the movie or you need to remove the left side of the frame completely and use the remaining 1.85:1 area. If the 3D bluray contains 1.78:1 IMAX scenes then this won’t be a problem to integrate. So you either crop the sides out or crop the top and sides out. In any case all the situations are Lose-Lose!!!