Films mentioned include Bullets or Ballots, China Clipper, Swing Your Lady, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, San Quentin, Dark Victory, The Oklahoma Kid, You Can't Get Away with Murder, Each Dawn I Die, The Roaring Twenties, Torrid Zone, A Dispatch from Reuter's, The Bride Came C.O.D., The Sea Wolf, The Big Shot, The Wagon Rolls at Night, To Have and Have Not, Conflict, Key Largo, G Men
most of the outtakes for Bogie in the beginning are from Swing Your Lady - a film he hated and called his worst. maybe that's why he cant remember his lines.
Notice how serious they were when they made errors, just shows the amount of effort they put into acting back then, unlike these days they all start laughing. James Cagney seemed to have more of a sense of humour.
at the time film was very expensive, so they cut real quick on errors. with digital running few 1 minute after a blooper is free. so you see more of the reactions.
Looks quite good, though did Topaz AI also smooth the film grain, or was this a stylistic choice post-processing? Just trying to get an idea of what Topaz is doing. Also curious what it would look like at a more filmlike 24p. The 50fps give it that dreaded soap opera quality.
There actually was no grain. The source material was second hand 480p feathery, grey and full of artifacts. I actually ADDED the fine grain. Normally I would agree about the "Soap opera look" as I am not a fan, but on old film like this I find that it looks intriguing and adds flow. I think it still retains the "film look" enough because of the age and nature of the footage. Thanks for your interest. : )
@@spockboy Interesting - RU-vid must have ruined most of that hard work with their significant compression at this point (it'd be great if you had a concurrent Vimeo upload of these!). I think you've hit on what makes 50p interesting on B&W though - it makes it look like a 30p kinetoscope. It makes me think of the final years of the John Daly-era What's My Line episodes. P.S.: Been following for years now. No matter how infrequent the uploads, you're always bringing something new and interesting to the table, and I _greatly_ appreciate it. I also sop it up like a wet sponge; have to try Topaz AI sometime myself!
Yeah, Anne Sheridan was funny, especially in kissing scenes...found a similar one with both her and George Raft in a liplock, then the cameramen made ugly smooching, grabbing sounds and that did it!
