Yeah, "Nosferatu", for example, is very dim in quality in many places. Most
wild is the use of a bluish background to differentiate night from day, since I
guess they couldn't actually film in darkness way back then. So it really makes
you focus on every little detail of the screen, and that's hard to do at 1 am.
I love TCM, especially when they show those "race" movies from the 20s and 30s,
featuring all-black casts. Those are great. And I love when they break out the
decades-old cartoons as well.
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From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@lycos.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:29:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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Again true, Keith.
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>From : Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Yeah, they show silent films every Sunday night/Monday morning starting at
midnight. I saw "Metropolis" a few months ago. I understand there are actually
a couple different versions of that film, not sure if what I saw was closest to
the "director's cut". Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and a host of other
silent stars have been showcased on TCMs late night show. It's great stuff, but
my only complain is the wisdom of showing silent films primarily late night on
Sunday. Not only do many people miss it because they have to get up Monday to
go to work, but it's a bit hard to watch a film where one *has* to focus on
reading the screen that late at night. Silent films are all visual cues and
clues, and I'm often too tired to give them the attention they deserve at that
time.
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From: "Martin Baxter"
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Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:57:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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Only about a third of it, I'm afraid. The meds kicked in about then and kicked
me right off the cliff into Nod.
If memory serves, TCM's had it submitted for cleanup and remastering, because
that's one of only a dozen prints left of the movie.
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>From : Keith Johnson
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Didja by chance catch "Nosferatu" late Sunday night on TCM? I'm not sure if
that was a remastered copy, though I seem to remember it was. It still looked
old too, though I wonder, how easy is it to remove all the video "scratches"
and noise from a film, even with advanced digital processing?
Still a great film, and makes me wish all the more that Hollywood gets back to
the old concept of the vampyr as a frightening, repulsive beast, and give this
romantic, angst-filled hunk angle a rest for a while.
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From: "Martin Baxter"
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Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:16:51 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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Lavender, they would almost certainly have to remaster a few. A few nights ago,
I watched "Lost Horizon" on TCM, and their copy, digitally remastered and
barely a few years old, is already showing signs of wear. And, right now, I'm
watching an oldie called "Drums" from 1938, which appears to have been freshly
redone. Not sure if they could resist the lure.
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Date : Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:25:09 -0400
>From : "Rouge"
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It would appear to do something of that type of undertaking would take years to
do. Would they for example do original episodes that are in black and white or
the ones that were digital re mastered?
--Lavender
From: Tracey de Morsella
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:43 AM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ; cinque3...@verizon.net
Subject: [scifinoir2] Every Movie Ever Made On The 'Net?
Every Movie Ever Made On The 'Net?
17 March 2009 2:35 AM, PDT
The founder of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website has envisaged a time
when all of the 1.3 million titles indexed on the site -- movies and TV shows
-- can be streamed to its users with the click of a mouse. As reported by CNET
News, Col Needham, in a speech delivered to the South by Southwest Film
Festival in Austin, TX, acknowledged that the task will be formidable (and in
some instances impossible, since prints of some of the films listed on the
website no longer exist). Developing a relationship with rights owners also
could prove to be challenging, he said, but it has already begun, with IMDb
currently providing access to 14,000 TV episodes and about 2,000 movies, as
well as 120,000 videos including trailers, interviews and featurettes.
People may lie, but the evidence rarely does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
