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Topic: Blackhawk, the standard for Laurel and Hardy?
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 08, 2005 10:43 AM
It can vary a lot on these prints. For instance, the first reel of my copy of "Way Out West" is brighter, while the second reel on has VERY nice contrast, good grain and slightly better focus.
As a general rule, I've found the Laurel and Hardy shorts tend to have a better clarity to them than the features. I don't why this is so but it is much appreciated. Soemtimes it doesn't help much. I picked up a copy of "Brats" a short while back, and whether it's the sound or silent edition, this short tends to have a mariginal focus at best. It must be due to the original negative. I just picked up a brilliant copy of "Dirty Work" (love those falling bricks!) for five bucks! What a steal, and it was never played!
I'd be curious to learn about the history of the film labs used by Blackhawk, as it was mentioned that Blackhawk later on switched to a second film lab and thier standards went down slightly.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted December 19, 2005 12:23 PM
You know, the strange thing is that Blackhawk titles an range so much, even with the very SAME title. I have both silent and sound versions of "Brats", one of my favorites, and believe it or not, the silent version has a very noticeable difference in sharpness of image, it's really like night and day. Hmmmm.
On a side note, I just won a copy of "Blockheads" on super 8 for 45.00 dollars, not too bad. I personally feel that Blockheads was the last of the truly great Laurel and Hardy comedies. They did make one other decent comedy, thier very next, "Flying Dueces", but there comedies, taken out of Stan Laurels personal hands after "Blockheads", really suffered, no one understood the team of Laurel and Hardy like Stan laurel, and he wrote accordingly, so I'm very happy to ave Blockheads in my collection.
and the cool thing is that I have secured a DVD copy of "Way Out West" and "Blockheads" with truly killer sound, so when I re-record these soundtracks, these super 8's are going to sound stunning with that re-processed dolby stereo sound!
All the best
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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