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Posted by Matthew Kirkcaldie on 10/11/05 03:32
In article <xNC2f.2502$MN6.1007@fed1read04>,
Bill Binder <whbinder@whbinder.com> wrote:
> Kubrick had final say on all video releases of his films. In the early
> eighties he signed off on some open matte transfers, which he preffered
> to P&S. That doesn't necesarrily mean he preffered open matte to the
> OAR.
Open matte WAS the original aspect ratio - have made this point
elsewhere but the stills in the Kubrick Archives book pretty much wrap
up that argument.
> Especially since many of his open matte films have horrible gaffes
> in the opened mattes.
There's ONE helicopter shadow and the ghost of some blades in the
opening of the Shining. I can't think of a single "gaffe" evident in
the open mattes - can you be specific?
> I would think he would have been more careful with
> his mattes if that was his intent. His family is the ones that claims
> the early VHS transfers were definative (which is why the current DVD
> releases are not only fullscreen, but twenty year old dirty transfers
> that can't be cleaned up by the family's request)
This is completely false. The first round of DVDs were done from the
video masters made in the 80s and look inferior. Because of this, his
family ordered a second, entirely new set of transfers from clean prints
for the "current DVD releases" in 2001, which are of superb quality.
What a load of rubbish.
MK.
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