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Topic: Which studio's Digests were the worst?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 08, 2008 10:36 PM
I sometimes wonder if this was due to time constraints, (level of quality control)?
For instance, I have seen the digest of "Dillinger" (Warren Oates, mid 70's) and the print suffers from the standard somewhat marginal focus and over all color.
The optical sound super 8mm feature, however, is nearly Derann quality pin sharp, with excellent color.
Granted, those who edited the digest probably recieved certain grade material to master with, and then it was duped, (no doubt) once more to the master negative for the digest, from which other main master negatives were made, and then the happy little prints that you and I hold are made from these ...
So it's, what? at least two generations far from the negative that they cut for the digest ...
... and then we don't know the overall quality of the that original print that they cut. If that was sub-standard, then the final outcome would be less than sub standard ...
... which makes the digest versions that Derann produced even more impressive.
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James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted November 05, 2008 09:08 PM
The major U.S. companies-
As far as editing and presentation goes (not image/sound quality), I would have to say Marketing Films digests are my least favorite. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the releases that Marketing put out, but -
1. Marketing almost always used very plain, generic title cards, instead of using original credits.
2. The editing usually didn't flow that well. Clumsy edits, especially during music, were too noticable.
3. The endings of the digests were usually too abrupt, which made the whole digest seem less enjoyable.
Although other companies sometimes made similar mistakes with editing, it seemed more consistant with Marketing.
James.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 08, 2008 09:49 AM
It is somewhat hard to find some of the Universal 8 digests with good color. I have "1941" and this seller is very reputable and he kept his films is good cool storage, and it still has the slightest "Eastman" fade.
Some of the digests, such as "Battlestar Galactica" were on KODAK SP and so this one has held up much better. Not faded at all. I've heard that "The Blue's Brothers" was prominently printed on Eastman and it's a hard title to find unfaded. Same with "High Plains Drifter".
Unfaded preprint material may be a big problem as well. I have run into situations where the leader will be completely unfaded, but once the actual film starts, the image is suddenly faded.
On one print that I have the leader is a perfect jet black, and even has a color chart with the full perfect color spectrum, (even perfect oranges and turqoise), but once the film starts, the image is faded!
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