Welcome to season 3! To kick things off, we’ve brought Duplitech Film Services Manager Blake Blasingame in to discuss film preservation and mastering for home video. Are you ready for 88 minutes of unadulterated shop talk about grain structure, bit depth, oversampling, color grading, and vinegar syndrome? Of course you are! This is Film Formally, after all.
In this episode, we discuss:The process of preserving and restoring films for Blu-Ray and DVD releases.
Scan resolutions - 4k, and the value of oversampling.
Vinegar syndrome: the silent killer.
How film elements are sourced for scans - negatives, IPs, IBs, and release prints.
Robert Richardson and revisionism.
William Peter Blatty and the restoration of the lost Legion cut of The Exorcist III
More audio restoration!
If you’d like to support the show, here’s a link to our Patreon.
Additional Resources:Works discussed during this episode:
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Exorcist III / Legion
The Thing
The French Connection
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner 2049
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Heartbreak Kid
Playtime
Tree of Wooden Clogs
Army of Shadows
Ran
The works of Wong Kar-Wai
Ep 10 - Pre-Code Montage feat. Peter Labuza
Ep 9 - Hallmark Movies feat. Gloria Mercer
Episode 8 - Long Takes feat. Kathleen Hepburn & Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Episode 7 - The Hunger Games and Cinemascope
Episode 6 - King Hu's Kinetic Editing in Dragon Inn and Legend of the Mountain feat. Ryan Swen
Episode 5: Robert Altman, Zooms, and the Camera's Point of View
Episode 4: Self-Reflexivity and Perfect Blue feat. Paige Smith
Episode 3: Worldizing Sound and American Graffiti
Episode 2: Small Crews feat. Sophy Romvari
Episode 1: Contagion and Steven Soderbergh's Digital Cinematography
Episode 0: Welcome to Film Formally
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