As I am on holiday today I decided to pull an all-nighter and watch Anthro too. Holocaust may have it's grain but Anthro is a different beast altogether. Some detail is there, some colours are there however the outdoor scenes do fluctuate in colour from natural to magenta to green in places. About a third into the film there's two blury magenta bands across the screen which never seem to go. Is that 'scanner noise' or a different problem?
The audio is fine, if anything it highlights the serious problems of post synching as all dialogue sounds like it was recorded in a shed. The dubbing is of course terrible but that isn't ever going to change, the mouths and dialogue haven't matched for 30 years so it won't now. It's a shame 88 couldn't have subtitled the German couple at the start, they might be saying bugger all but it would be nice to know.
Is this the best Anthro could look? I don't know, the transfer is problematic to start with maybe it really would have better saying as a Standard Def DVD?
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