These are so amazing to watch. What exactly would you have to major/study in college to be able to get the kind of training and skills to do restoration?
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@@notnek202 My education ended up having nothing to do with getting a job as an archivist; it was more being in the right place at the right time when a job opened up, and I'd already been volunteering in this same archive working on cataloguing photographs. But there are two fields under discussion here. The first is the archive itself, which stores the films, catalogues them, and makes them available to researchers. The second is the commercial labs that do the restoration and copying. Then work together, but each does different stuff.
@@hebneh it sounds like like a rewarding and interesting occupation. I figured you would need some form of extended education just high school ain’t going to cut it.
Wonderful to see this. I retouch pictures digital all the time and colorize on the computer too - nothing this high tech and nothing this big or important. I love Joan and love Mildred Pierce. Great job.
I love what you do and I've been buying your releases for as long as I can remember. Keep up the good work. My only 'regret' (for lack of a better term) is that I feel that you aren't releasing as many classics from Hollywood's golden era as you used to. I wish you'd release more movies like this, but that's just my personal preference, of course.
Dear Lee Kline, I need to tell you that the idiom is NOT "take out all the stops." It’s "pull out all the stops." The idiom originated from organ-playing, where pulling out a stop (a mechanical action that occurs when you physically pull on a knob to allow air through to a set of pipes) is what adds a rank of pipes to what is being played. Pulling out all the stops therefore means you’ll hear every rank of pipes - you’re playing all the pipes. Your "take out all the stops" shows that you neither know the idiom nor have understanding of the meaning of the phrase. It makes you look uneducated. Best to avoid using English phrases when you don’t know what they mean. Stick to being literal instead of trying to color you speech with idioms.
Awesome restoration! Here's a funny... the scene in front of the fireplace at the beach house, when Mildred is sitting on the pillow and Monty sits down beside her, the music playing is the love theme from Now Voyager with Betty Davis. I'm thinking that because Max Steiner did the music for both pictures, he recycled a bit of the music now and then... or maybe it was a private joke.
I noticed that scene where they out Veda and the picture quality changes. The part where they take her off to book her and she tells Mildred, "Don't worry about me mother, I'll get by". The contrast is bright and the film jerks. That is on the VHS. It was on another copy of a DVD but on the latest Blue-ray, you get the Criterion fix. Bravo to you guys!
I enjoy the great movies form the golden age of Hollywood ,especially the excellent and beautiful quality off the black and white nitrate cinema masterpieces , I am so delighted when warner brothers have a department called warner archive , which print on dvd great films on demand , all I know off from my knowledge off the excellent period , but never viewed , thank you for sharing a wonderful insight into the magnificent restoration off great Hollywood movies from the 1940s . Yours sincerely Grahame Prince
Waste of money to buy this Criterion DVD. The original Warner DVD release is crisp and clear and looks identical. These guys could've done a far better job restoring what was already a perfect looking print and making it that much more perfect. They restored an old copy that wasn't restored already. Big deal
