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?

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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!

Two Sony films from 1993. The IMDb claims they were shown theatrically in SDDS (6 or 8 channel) but the credits and posters make no mention of this. The BDs are 5.1 (as expected) but does anyone know what tracks were on the laserdiscs? Were these multi-channel digital or simply stereo? Thanx.

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I m a cinephile searching for rarities
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Hi guys. I am very interested in converting and downloading videos.

I'm trying to find the UK theatrical cut. As this British film was shown in theaters.

Was that cut ever released on Laserdisc, VHS, DVD or Blu-ray? If not, I wanted to start a project to create the UK theatrical cut.