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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  My sentiments exactly. I'm glad I was able to contribute to the restoration. |
...which apparently looks stunning.
I haven't seen it myself yet, but it seems that the finegrain 35mm print held by the Cinémathêque Française was more than adequate to fuel at least 80% of the restoration, with other sequences patched in from 35mm materials supplied by Argos Films - including, most crucially, 35mm materials for the colour sequences (the Cinémathêque's print was entirely black and white, presumably because it was struck straight from the now-lost original camera negative).
Which is why it went so smoothly and why we found we had more money to play with at the end - which in turn is why we were not only able to make 2K scans of the five Argos shorts that we mentioned in the Kickstarter campaign but additional 2K scans of two further shorts that we didn't mention - the longer cut of
A Private Collection and the short film that ultimately ended up as the dream sequence in
The Beast, but which was originally conceived as one of the episodes of
Immoral Tales.
And because of that, we could create an alternative five-episode cut of that film - it's been done before by the German distributor Bildstörung (in their three-disc edition of
Immoral Tales), but only in SD up to now.