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From: Wyckoff, NJ, USA
Registered: Jun 2015
posted December 03, 2015 10:54 AM
Looking at those wonderful screenshots, I wonder why they can't do a transfer that looks like that to digital. I just saw this on TV in HD and the colors looked nowhere near that good. What do they do to mess up the color for digital?
posted December 03, 2015 02:47 PM
That's the problem they like to tinker with the colour and aspect ratio of some films. This is mainly down to the pre-print original master either being damaged or lost.
Never seen another print offered in 16mm not even an IB Tech print. Though seeing this title on 35mm in IB Tech is certainly breath taking.
Posts: 437
From: Wyckoff, NJ, USA
Registered: Jun 2015
posted December 03, 2015 04:30 PM
Yes, they make the color look like a modern day film instead of that gorgeous IB Tech of yesteryear. Well, did you evah?
posted December 09, 2015 06:09 AM
Many of those later MGM Lab prints were made from dupe negative materials, hence the higher contrast. Depending on when the neg was made, it might also have faded so that the prints have a yellow hue. Earlie prints were from original materials but the prints themselves have faded.