Both movies are in HD, Widescreen and with Dolby 5.1 in english and german.
Theatrical Cut for The Abyss and it's the new tealed transfer.

I was always aware of the missing slap sound effect on the Blu Ray audio but wasn't sure which releases had this present. Bad Audio on Blu Ray blog has some good info in this. Does anyone have the ac3 from the 40th anniversary DVD.

Also while on the subject, is there any info out there regarding the laserdisc audio and how that compares?

So I've found this open matte version of Spider-Man 2 on some Russian site I can't remember, but I've downloaded it and gone through it with a fine toothed comb and compared it to the BR. But first, here are some screengrabs. 





I then took some more screenshots and stacked them ontop of the BR and found that some shots barely had some new info. (Blue=Open Matte and Red=BR)


Other have a lot more and appear that the BR from cropped from it
Looks like prime material for a UAR Version, eh spoRv?

In the vein of my earlier Where Eagles Dare project, this reconstruction attempts to recreate the experience of viewing Star Trek: The Motion Picture at a UK cinema from 1979 to 1980. The video and audio sources used for the main feature are as close as possible to those originally seen and heard on release, and the movie is preceded by a reel of vintage ads and trailers to recapture the feel of a cinema visit in the late 70s.

The Film
Paramount's 2009 Blu-ray of ST:TMP was clean and reasonably detailed, but excessive DNR left a very digital-looking finish, with colour that was either revisionist or simply ignorant as to the original look. Fortunately, Sky's HDTV broadcasts come from an altogether different master, whose grain and colour (as well as a fair bit of print wear and dirt!) present a considerably more authentic experience (see various other threads for discussions of these sources' relative merits, most recently iguanaclerk's sterling work on the DC version).

Aside from moderate compression artefacting, Sky's broadcast has one other major shortcoming: the subtitles for the alien language scenes, which have been cheaply rendered in a generic Trek-ish font. Fortunately, the Blu-ray - while no more authentic in this regard - uses softsubs for those scenes, so it was possible to replicate the original font and placement using the 1991 widescreen laserdisc (https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/11219/LV8...on-Picture) as a reference.

The same laserdisc provides the main audio track for this release, a stereo PCM transfer of the theatrical Dolby Stereo. The TrueHD 7.1 from the BD is included as a second track for those who prefer a more modern soundfield. (It's worth noting that, while 70mm 6-track prints existed, they weren't used during the original run - the best experience available at the time would have been the 35mm Dolby Stereo).

Naturally, this is the theatrical edit.

The Intro
The original Star Trek movies were initially distributed by CIC in the UK (UIP for the later instalments). The ABC cinema chain had priority for this series, so those cinemas (along with the Empire in Leicester Square) would have been the most likely places to have seen TMP in December 1979.

Along with ads and trailers, I've also included one of the last Movietone newsreels from that year.

Big thanks:
Chewtobacca for help with the framerate-corrected Sky HD source
ILoveWaterslides for the CIC logo recreation

Now up at the 'spleen.

Hello, I so miss a decent 35mm movie presentation so I'm looking to obtain any complete movie 35mm film scans to watch at home. Can anyone help please?   

One in particular is Ghostbuster which appears to have been incredibly captured for prosperity. Not privileged to the sites where these beauties appear to be available unfortunately. 

Happy to contribute to any completed or new projects.

Thanks in advance.

As some of you maybe know, I’m working on a reconstruction of The Phantom Menace in full HD for more than one year. The goal of this project is to provide a 100% theatrical version of the movie, in 100% HD (not a single frame in upscaled SD, everything in real 1080p), as it was never released, except maybe a German HD broadcast that was never succesfully recorded.

Why do I talk about it now
Two reasons :

• I didn’t want to create a thread about it until my project was advanced enough. Well, I feel that it is now advanced enough ! I think it’s time to talk about it and share on this forum some sources, some personal techniques to recover missing scenes in HD, the results that I can get, and to discuss about it.
  
• Other similar projects are on the way (certainly Poita’s 35 mm scan and ChewieLewis HD reconstruction, and maybe other ongoing projects), so it seems to be a good time to talk about mine. While other projects are pursuing the same goal (providing a theatrical version of The Phantom Menace), they take different paths. I hope that when each project will be released, it will be possible to merge the various skills of everyone to achieve an ultimate version.
  

• The original theatrical colors are not available in HD: the HDTV version has too much red everywhere and contains some scene differently regraded than others ; the Blu-Ray was re-regraded on a scene by scene basis and has no more original color at all.
  
• Some scenes seem to be definitely lost in HD and only available in (poor) SD : arrival on Coruscant – with a view on Palpatine’s office (replaced by a taxi sequence), Palace of Naboo by night without an added CGI-bridge, and Senate scene with a cameo of Trish Biggar and Iain McCaig as Senators. Other scenes were reassembled differently in HD, or were available only on some bonuses, but they are not definitely lost. The scene of Qui-Gon on Tatooine by night was directly taken from Digital Video for HDTV and BR versions, contrary to the original 35mm version, so the colors are pretty different.
  

1. The original colors can be deduced from some versions, since LaserDisc, ORF1 broadcast, Euro Canal Plus broadcast and some bonuses on Blu-Ray or Digital Collection show the same range of colors (once they are well calibrated), that perfectly fit old photos taken from 35mm in early 2000. For the rest, the amazing DrDre’s Color Matching tool, and a lot of time, allowed me to do a scene by scene color regrading.
   
2. Missing scenes were painstakingly recreated in several steps :
   

• Widely enhancing video quality by using spoRv's PaNup technique (as described here) and merging together ORF1 broadcast, Euro Canal Plus broadcast, LaserDisc and VCD.
  
• Then, a very complicated technique of my own (whom I’m very proud of) that gives full HD frames.
  

• Everything was edited in 24p (not 23,976p), as it was shown in theaters almost 20 years ago.
  
• Every shot was upscaled in 4K using Super Resolution fo better HD-reconstruction, then downscaled to 1080p.
  
• Theatrical DTS sound was fully restored from theatrical DTS CD-ROM, without any other audio treatment than applying the APT-X100 post production recommendations (as found here).
  
• Theatrical Dolby EX 6.1 was fully restored from Laserdisc.
  

• Reassembling HDTV sources to theatrical cut : 100 %
  
• Rebuilding missing scenes (PaNup) : 100 %
  
• Rebuilding missing scenes (1080p) : 50 %
  
• Regrading colors : 70 %
  
• Syncing Audio (DTS, Dolby EX, PCM 2.0) : 00 %
  
• Misc (bonuses) : 00%
  

• Bootleg NYC (VHS, NTSC)
  
• Bootleg Z (VCD, NSTC)
  
• Official VHS release (NTSC)
  
• Official VCD release NTSC)
  
• Laserdisc (NTSC)
  
• Euro Canal Plus broadcast capture (PAL)
  
• ORF Ein broadcast (PAL)
  
• HDTV German Premiere broadcast (PAL 1080p) 
  
• Digital Collection
  
• HDTV UK broadcast
  
• screenshots, press and stage pictures…
  

• Harmy for the inspiration
  
• Nightstalkerpoet for his German HDTV source that he shared almost a year ago
  
• DrDre for his amazing Color Matching tool
  
• Althor1138 for his precious Laserdisc preservation that made me want to discover the amazing world of Laserdiscs a year ago
  
• spoRv for his PaNup technique and all the FanRes community
  
• Schorman for his HDTV 1080p preservation
  

All copies I've seen of this trailer have been pretty lousy quality.  I'd love to see a 35mm version of it.  I think it's one of the best trailers ever made (the 3-minute version).  Anyone able to hook me up with this?

I want to find a picture with good quality.

I already found a bad copy with hard subtitles:

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IMDB

I will be very grateful for help.

I've been working on a regrade of this classic war film (probably the best war film ever).

I'm using, of course, ColorMatch to create the LUTs (more than a hundred!) and the DVD as reference (but not as a matching reference). Then, DaVinci Resolve for the final grading.

Very difficult to grade this film, as the BluRay has literally dozens of different gradings... or differently faded footage I should say, as it appears to be unrestored. There's one more thing that makes the grading even more difficult: dynamically graded (faded) footage (meaning that the grade/fade graduallly changes within a scene).

I'm still polishing some scenes... I'll post a message when it's finished.

A comparison gallery (BD/DVD/Regrade) can be found here: Comparison Gallery

Some pics of the results so far:

Hi,

I would like to request the extended version of Love, Simon if there's someone who is interested in making it. I'd be grateful. Thank you in advance!