For availability for context - my restoration of the cut. Filled with un-used scenes, involving zigzags feet rub by the goons and unused elements, like princess yum-yum’s twin, Princess meemee. Clips and bonuses will be shown via Private message .
   

• Amazon [STARZ] Open Matte Theatrical Cut 1080p WEB-DL (16:9)
  
• spoRv's Fundamental Collection Open Matte (with his permission)
  
• BluRay Unrated Director's Cut 1080p (2.40:1)
  

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Inspired by @Klexos' Wizarding World Ultimate Definitive Editions, I thought it would be amazing to restore Stanley Kubrick's films to 4K HDR with the full 1.37:1 camera negative aspect ratio.
@Klexos' phenomenal Harry Potter restorations have near-seamlessly combined the official 4K Ultra HD releases with AI upscaled versions of the open matte 4:3 DVDs and 16:9 open matte TV broadcasts to create the fullest presentation for each film in the highest quality possible. Each film varies aspect ratio between scenes due to the Super 35 framing of the films with the most common aspect ratio being around 1.66:1. AutoOverlay is used to composite the CinemaScope 4K UHD restoration on top of the upscaled 4:3 and 16:9 transfers, while gaps with the final composite in a non-square aspect ratio is made square by applying a blur filter on the gaps.

The following Stanley Kubrick films were shot in 1.37:1 to be cropped to 1.66:1 (Dr. Strangelove) or 1.85:1 (the other films) and are in 4K UHD and/or Blu-ray in 16:9 1.78:1 (except for Dr. Strangelove, which is in the intended 1.66:1):
 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
 - The Shining
 - Full Metal Jacket
 - Eyes Wide Shut

Their early DVD releases were in open matte 4:3 but these vintage SD presentations now look blurry on modern 4K displays and the current 4K UHD restorations look amazing. And the 4:3 1.33:1 images still have some horizontal cropping to fit the 1.37:1 image in a 1.33:1 picture.
So why not take a page out of @Klexos to restore the 1.37:1 presentations in 4K HDR?
Eyes Wide Shut is still not in 4K UHD but I have a feeling that it is inevitable and the other three 4:3 Kubrick films are already available in 4K UHD.
Dr. Strangelove's 4:3 presentations (like the Criterion LD) also have variable aspect ratios with the film shrinking to 1.66:1 for some scenes, I think there should be two variants of Dr. Strangelove: one with a constant width (1.37:1 shrinking to windowboxed 1.66:1) and one with a constant height (1.37:1 expanding to 1.66:1).

Each film can have their 5.1 remixes as well as the best quality version of the original mono mix (except for Eyes Wide Shut, which has always been in 5.1).
So:
Dr. Strangelove: 1994 US/Japan Columbia LaserDisc mono mix
The Shining: 1999 US DVD mono mix
Full Metal Jacket: 1999 US DVD mono mix

The final picture would be in 3840x2160p 4K HDR and 4K SDR image with a mostly consistent aspect ratio of 1.37:1 and blur on some sides that are outside the 16:9 and 4:3 areas, as well as HDR and SDR variants of Dr. Strangelove in the two Constant Height and Constant Width presentations, as well as cut-down European version of The Shining in addition to the extended US cut.

Their earliest NTSC DVDs would be the easiest way to get digital versions of the 4:3 open matte versions but PAL DVDs from a similar time period may have higher resolution picture and no judder at the cost of inferior audio thanks to our old PAL speedup and being harder to find.

Unfortunately, I have very little HDD space and I have a toasty toaster of a PC that has no hopes of AI upscaling films over two hours long from 480p to 4K.

These would definitely look especially amazing in CRT PC monitors like those fancy 2560x1920p ones.

P.S: I see that the 1999 DVD of Eyes Wide Shut is rated R unlike the later releases which are Unrated but they have the same length.
Apparently, the only change between these versions is that the orgy scene had some CGI to cover up some of the more explicit nudity in the R-rated version while the international releases had some alterations to the soundtrack.
The UK version is visually uncut but had some alterations to the soundtrack that are not present in the US and Australian DVDs, though it is indeed in 4:3 according to eBay listings.
I am not sure if the US Blu-ray has the uncut soundtrack either.
Ideally, the combo for Eyes Wide Shut would be:
 - 4K UHD (when it comes out)
 - Visually-uncut UK DVD
 - 4K UHD DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio (when it comes out and if it is uncut)

I recently stumbled across this:
http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t006686.html

Suggesting that the original theatrical prints of Hellboy had 45 seconds of silent black screen at the end of reel 5. This should occur immediately after Liz's powers 'explode' destroying Sammael. All home video releases have the screen black out but then almost immediately the next scene begins.

I can see how having a period of silent black here would add a lot of gravity to the sequence but 45 seconds really is a long time to be staring at nothing and would have most viewers yelling at the projection booth or reaching for the remote. Interestingly the cinema DTS track that I have for this movie does not have the 45 seconds of silence suggesting perhaps that later prints removed it.

I was interested in trying to put the black screen back in to the UHD and was wondering if it might be possible to do this losslessly. The point where the black should occur is on a keyframe so should it not be possible to encode a 45 second stretch of black video and 'patch' it into the movie?

Hi everyone,
you may or may not know who I am. I'm Feallan, and I've been an admin of this forum for about 6.5 years now. When I took up this job, the forum was in a terrible state, with multiple spam bots every day and serious performance and downtime issues, but these problems were so long ago, you may not even remember them. I barely post these days, because I don't have as much free time as I used to, but I lurk many threads and I'm here at least for a couple of minutes pretty much every day. My main activities concerning Fanres have always been just keeping the forum up and running on my hosting service, updating the software, fixing issues that may arise, introducing plugins from time to time, things like that.

As for why I'm introducing myself all of a sudden, well it's just to give a bit of a context to a difficult decision I've had to make. There are two administrators of Fanres, myself who pays for hosting and spoRv who pays for (and therefore owns) the fanres.com domain. Recently we've come to such a conflict, that I do not see a way to cooperate with him in the future. Previously, any changes to the forum, even small ones were always consulted between the two of us and forum moderators, PDB and Doombot, and we always have had to come to some sort of unanimous agreement. Recently, spoRv has done a ton of changes to the forum layout and underlying settings on his own, knowing that the rest of us clearly and strongly objected to them. Not only that, but because of his rash and unplanned approach, the forum suffered a very long, near 24 hours downtime, something I would never allow to happen. After the resulting argument he expressed dissatisfaction with our "agreement" approach and offered me a choice which came down to basically resigning peacefully, or getting booted. Granted, he later cooled off and apologized for it, but the core issue remained unresolved: the conflict is still there, spoRv still wants to have complete control of the forum, and it has only faded out because of my silence on this matter. spoRv believes Fanres is somehow 100% his own creation which he, and he alone should be free to change to his liking, without thinking about the opinion of other users. Myself, I don't like this kind of attitude, to me Fanres is a community that can't exist without its users, and I'm just sort of a janitor who provides the platform for the posts that you guys make. These two approaches cannot coexist and I don't trust spoRv to do right by the forum, or its users.

After discussion with PDB and Doombot, who are both not only moderators, but also prominent users here, we decided to basically pack up and move the forum to a new domain, called Fanrestore.com, one that we own and that has nothing to do with spoRv who we believe is not fit to run a forum. Fanres.com domain has been set to redirect to Fanrestore.com, the site you are now on, but that can change any minute if spoRv decides to restart the Fanres forum on his own. If he does that, know that he is the only staff member who will remain there, the rest of us will be at Fanrestore.com. If you believe we will do a better job than spoRv, please update your bookmark, there is nothing else you have to do (you may just have to re-login), as Fanrestore.com is the exact same forum instance. It has the same database and software, your username, password, post history etc. carries over. I'm very sad it has come to this, I really hate all kinds of forum drama, this one is especially nasty since it may cause a userbase split, but unfortunately at this point it's either us or spoRv and we feel we can't back down and let him ruin the site we've been on for years. I hope all of you guys follow us to the new domain.

Feallan

Long time lurker. Super fascinated with fan restorations and alternate releases!  

Long time lurker

Hello!

I stumbled on this forum and am so glad I did. Very interesting topics with all of the audio projects going on. Thank you for the opportunity to join in this community!