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remsouille said:

Hello all!

I’ve uploaded the 3 movies on gofile so Snoopac can grab them and handle distribution! I’ve also sent the links to those who reached out to me in the last months! I hope this time you all get to get them! The links won’t last long, so if they die on you, reach out to Snoopac!
I’ve been in touch with the person who originaly had the movies scanned and he’s found the original and supposedly un-altered raw scan data, we’re trying to see if i can get a copy of that.
I’m really curious to see what the scans looked like before they were compiled and encoded, I still have a strong feeling that some dodgy grading work was done to them. Also, the encoding and bitrate on FOTR is not as good as TTT and ROTK. I think there is strong potential for a solid V2 here.
We’re talking about a huge amount of data though, the guy is talking about one or two thousand bucks dollars of hard drives, which at the moment I totally can’t afford. So we’ll see how that goes!

In the meantime, enjoy! I think this is as good as I can make them at the moment!

Cheers!

You’re a hero! I’ve been watching only the DVDs all these years just for the colours.

Out of interest, what is your thought process behind the grading? In terms of authenticity, I assume a well done scan of each movie from a pristine 35mm source would be the gold standard? But as you say there seems to have been some tampering done to the currently available scans.

I think one of the most interesting things in terms of restoration is the discussion on what is actually the intended look of a movie. In the case of the LOTR trilogy I’ve read that the actual print stock was carefully chosen just to get the right colours for theatrical screenings, which would suggest that the print stock is part of the original color grade in some sense.

One could assume that just prior to releasing a movie for the first time all the important people are still somewhat present to make sure the movie looks perfect for theaters. I suspect that as time goes on, and a movie is released again and again on home media, the people who had the original vision are no longer present, and thus we get a soup of bad decisions making the home releases look really strange.

My personal belief is, at least in the case of most big budget movies from the celluloid era, that the theatrical prints are the versions of the movie that got the most love and care from directors, and more importantly the DP, and is therefore the “intended look”. The recent remasters, supervised by Peter Jackson, makes me think that he is probably not the sole reason for the movies looking so good in theaters back in the day. Sadly the DP Andrew Lesnie isn’t around anymore, but if he was, he would probably have done a better job remastering the movies.

Are these the same as the ones by remsouille?