Warner restores Rocky Horror
dahveed76
PDF from the UCLA Film & Television Archive:
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/pdfs/RedShoesBooklet.pdf
"Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) operates one of the
entertainment industry’s foremost state-of-the-art digital post
production and restoration facilities, providing services such as
digital intermediate, scanning, color correction, dirt and scratch
removal and film recording. A leader in the field of film preservation
and restoration, MPI has developed a unique and patented process to
digitally restore classics from the vast Warner Bros. Studios film and
television library as well as those of third party clients including
such titles as The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola), Gone with
the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming), The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor
Fleming), North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) and The Rocky
Horror Picture Show (1975, Jim Sharman). Located on the Warner Bros.
Studio lot in Burbank, California, MPI’s facility has received safety
certification to store and work with nitrate film stock."
So, since WB-MPI has only been around since 2006, it looks like our
favorite film is getting a full digital restoration, whatever that may
entail.
-D
dahveed76
Eh, I'm wrong about how long WB-MPI's been around, but this PDF
document is fairly recent (this year) anyway, so here's hoping.
-D
Randy Brown
> <snip>
>
> So, since WB-MPI has only been around since 2006, it looks like our
> favorite film is getting a full digital restoration, whatever that may
> entail.
>
> -D
They're probably sprucing it up for the Blu-Ray release. 1970s film
stock sometimes wasn't up to snuff, especially for a low-budget movie
like RH...or even bigger films such as "Close Encounters of the Third
Kind."
I'll likely own the Rocky BRD long before I own a player!
--RB
danny
around. Still pissed they "fixed the color" for that part on the DVD
release.
Randy Brown
Dammit, Danny...you just made me drag out my old laserdisc player and
the 20th anniversary (1995) box set. There's no "blue tint" in the
flashback there, either. On the 1990 VHS the blues seem to be bolder
all the way through.
The color pallette on 35mm prints has varied wildly over the years:
from the rather washed-out nature of the earliest ones, through the
garish hues of the late 1970s and 1980s, to the beautifully color-
balanced and saturated prints of the late 1980s and later.
("Superheroes" prints from about 1989 onward are best.) Also note
that for years Fox tended to splice together two or more crummy prints
to make one half-decent copy.
Are you sure you aren't referring to a defective or composite print?
In all my years in this business I've never noticed any "blue tint" in
the flashbacks. Besides, with the 2000 DVD edition more of us were
concerned with them getting the SOUND right, after a decade of the
lousy Chace Surround version (read my extensive review of the 2000
soundtrack restoration at
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror/browse_thread/thread/20b3d01ae87cfe6d/209c51e522470360?hl=en&q=
).
--RB (somehow still alive)
AZRocky
> Are you sure you aren't referring to a defective or composite print?
We've had prints like this; it's pretty much what I'm used to and the
DVD has never looked "right" to me...
Matteo
Kev J.B.
>>In all my years in this business I've never noticed any "blue tint" in the flashbacks.
It's always been there until the DVD.
sailorcartman
I've been seeing Rocky since 1986. I've seen MANY different prints.
The blue tint for those scenes has been in every print I've seen until
the DVD. The print we currently run was struck within the past 2 years
and the blue tint is definetely there. They screwed up the DVD, plain
and simple. (They also screwed up the color on the Shocky DVD)
> soundtrack restoration athttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror/browse_th...
danny
printings/years. All of those have had the blue tint on the
flashback.