I’ve been waiting on all three movies because I refused to purchase those Via Vision BD releases. The one time my patience paid off.
Why did you refuse?
Too expensive and I thought Kino would release them derived from updated scans.
Sheba had music altered for first home release. What now?
I bought both the Imprint of Country Girl & Sheba a while back during a sale. They weren't very expensive. I might possibly get the Kino releases later though.
I think the big question in people's minds are whether or not these elements are ones produced before being duped in the process of being converted to Superscope.
The film elements we scanned were 1.85:1.
Based on the phrase "best available 35mm elements", I'm guessing the negative no longer exists.
Would aspect ratio experts say the 2.00:1 ratio is preferable?
1.85:1 would be the original composition of the filmmakers, and SuperScope cropping was applied afterwards. I’m delighted that finally an uncropped element has been located, because Paramount claimed for years that SuperScope elements were all that existed.
That still leaves the question of how the 1.37 camera negative became the 1.85 element Kino reports they scanned. What I'm getting at is whether Kino's element has a dupe stage in its pedigree; so far all 35mm elements used for video have, and that's been the brick wall, quality-wise.
Fair.
No.
Do you know how the 1.85 cropping from 1.37 was accomplished for the Invasion of the Body Snatchers fine grain Kino has scanned? Would it have been via a dupe?
