tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326335.post475311841872846030..comments2023-06-16T11:04:04.845-04:00Comments on Cinemasparagus: Doctor Xcraig keller.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04633188566264641743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326335.post-32525663081192477802007-11-03T00:37:00.000-04:002007-11-03T00:37:00.000-04:00I believe the new transfer of 'Doctor X' comes fro...I believe the new transfer of 'Doctor X' comes from a print restored by UCLA, so the colors are quite accurate. This RG-minus-B look is native to the two-strip process (red-strip + green-strip, no blue)... and sometimes I wonder if it's not even more beautiful than three-strip Technicolor. You can see an even earlier example of available-on-DVD two-strip (from 1927 no less) in DeMille's weirdo <B><I>The King of Kings</I></B>... at least for the first twenty minutes or so, which completely blow Jesus's parables in reels 3 through 21 out of the water, and again in a patch near the end.<BR/><BR/>Then there's three years back or so, when Scorsese digitally mimicked the two-strip look throughout the first third of <I><B>The Aviator</I></B>, to kind of arbitrary, pastiche'y effect.<BR/><BR/>craig.craig keller.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04633188566264641743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326335.post-82327028015045429072007-11-01T10:55:00.000-04:002007-11-01T10:55:00.000-04:00Superb captures, I must remember to grab this off ...Superb captures, I must remember to grab this off TCM next time it comes around. I know very little about two-strip Technicolor; is this also what the color of the film looked like at the time or has it degraded?Daniel Kasmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00090178978468389578noreply@blogger.com