Finally! 35mm Nitrate Fine Grain transfers in Hi-Def!
While these classic gems may not be "restored", the original 35mm Nitrate Fine Grain masters have been used to master this Hi-Def release.
The image is sharp, the contrast is good. The sound is crisp, clear and free of most noise.
There is occasional picture movement that could have been fixed with an image stabilization program, but this would be restoration work, which was not done.
White negative dust does appear, mostly at the beginning & end of the cartoons, but it is not distracting.
One advantage of a lack of 'restoration' is NO DVNR like the old Laserdiscs & VHS tapes.
It has been demonstrated at the Cartoon Research webpage that in the early days of sound Max Fleischer did not use the standard 1:37-1 square picture ratio. His cartoons were made in a slightly narrower frame ratio (called Movietone Ratio). These cartoons have been scanned to capture the original full frame, but slightly stretched to fill the 1:33-1 square video image. For...
Boop-Oop-A-Doop - Volume 2
More non-PD BB cartoons released on DVD and BLU - ALL NEWLY REMASTERED IN HD FROM 4K SCANS OF THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES & FINEGRAINS.
Includes the 12 classic cartoon listed below:
Volume Two:
DIZZY DISHES (1930)
BIMBO'S INITIATION (1931)
BOO-OOP-A-DOOP (1932)
BETTY BOOP LIMITED (1932)
BETTY BOOP'S BIZZY BEE (1932)
BETTY BOOP'S UPS AND DOWNS (1932)
BETTY BOOP'S MUSEUM (1932)
BETTY BOOP'S BIG BOSS (1933)
MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT (1933)
BETTY BOOP'S LITTLE PAL (1934)
BETTY BOOP'S PRIZE SHOW (1934)
KEEP IN STYLE (1934)
Vol 2 is as good as Vol 1
Another good blu-ray collection of Betty cartoons. I hope we do not have to wait long for the next collection. Expensive but worth it to me.
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