Here it is.
Not much to say. Sourced from the MGM BD and regraded using the italian 35mm print scan floating around as reference. Pretty nice scan, just some magentaish shots here, others a bit greenish there... Needless to say, I balanced the colors while being faithful to the 35mm scan.
Cons: no matter how good the encoding is (and of course my reencode) this is limited by being 8-bit. With such an extreme regrading, chroma noise became much more obvious in some shots.
A big thank you to izzybell for providing the Dolby Stereo 2.0 mix from the Shout BD!
Just something quick I made, given that the theatrical cut on the Blu-ray is more of an edit of the Signature Edition rather than a true cut, since it includes color grading, a replacement of score during the scene where Hogarth suits up and you can even hear a split second of the additional scene added after the ‘Duck and Cover’ sequence fading out once we head to the next scene, which is the reason why I went with CtrlHD’s WEB-DL as it uses the native 720p DVD master.
Posted by: nak50 - 2026-10-02, 08:19 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Howdy, all!
nak50 here. I'm really hoping folks on here have already started doing a fanrestore of The Flight of Dragons since the new restoration was beautiful . . . except we lost the top & bottoms of pictures that make it hard to watch when you know what was there. Would love to see what's out there, & help if there are any active projects.
Sup guys! New here in town, and i am excited to be here. I'm happy to see an active forum that surround fan restorations and such, as i've always been interested in this stuff since i was a kid. Anyway, this is my formal Hello to you.
I've been an obsessive devotee of cinema since I was very young and joined this forum as means of both engaging with those similarly afflicted and, of course, with the hopes of accessing the great work people produce here.
The television is the retina of the mind's eye, after all.
Posted by: Sambarker04 - 2026-10-01, 12:50 AM - Forum: Released
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After I got access to the Cinema DTS files of the film, I know I had to make this. Since the audio for the US Blu-ray seems to come from the PCM source, the international BD releases which contains the original UK audio, seems to be converted to DTS-HD MA from a Dolby Digital source, so what I did is that I used the US BD audio, patched the UK audio with the Cinema DTS audio, and called it a day. There are only two lines where the word "marrow" has been replaced to "melon" for the US release, so this one is easy to make.
As a bonus, I've also synced the attached short "A Christmas Caper" to the Madagascar BD, so if you got access to the link, they will contain both files.
Posted by: Sambarker04 - 2026-10-01, 12:43 AM - Forum: Released
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Underrated Disney classic. Sucks that it was delisted from their streaming service. I originally bought the disc just for The Incredibles teaser (turns out its the abridged version that was also on the UK DVD of Finding Nemo), but after thinking about it, I bought the R1 DVD along with it to see what the film is like long after I saw a YouTube review from Media Hunter. I actually did three attempts since I bought the disc, and this is the third, using my own new skills.
Is anyone here intimately familiar with The Ten Commandments (1956)? I have it on Blu-ray and it features intermission music that comes to around 2:15.
However, I also have a copy of the projectionists' notes, which say:
"INTERMISSION MUSIC: An optical sound track, with the picture area black, has been provided for use during the intermission. It runs 4 minutes 40 seconds. It should be played through the screen speaker, with the scrim and douser closed.
In theatre screenings of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS it has been found that people return from the lobby when the intermission music is heard. It is suggested that this music be started approximately 3 minutes before the time established for the start of Part II of the picture."
I can't find any other reference to intermission music that runs for 4:40. There are a number of different soundtrack releases, but they all seem to either sit between 2:06 and 2:16, or omit the intermission music entirely.
I wondered whether the 4:40 claim in the notes was a typo, but that doesn't seem to mesh with the second paragraph: you'd want the 3-minute "buffer" to be shorter than the music, otherwise Part II would start before the published time. This implies that the music would be no less than 3 minutes long.
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