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"Holiday In Spain" (aka Scent of Mystery): (all 65mm)
Frame
sample from scan by Dave Strohmaier
Some big trouble here - the color looks sort of OK but the 0-negs (original
camera negs) have noticeable blotches and some fluttering on many reels (we
spot checked 4 rolls). Some of this might be able to be removed but not all
of it. I will try some tests on this footage with furnace core and see what
comes up and if it can be minimized or not. Won't be a simple re mastering
job however, as it may need outside vendor techniques such as Digital Vision
to minimize the blotching. Another possibility would be to test telecine one
of the of the fluttering sections but with the 70mm "pinkish" print (the
print does not seem to flutter when we saw it a few weeks ago) and see if
Steve the Crest colorist can get color back into it using "FCP Color"
software.
Smileboxed
still frame from remastered version of "Holiday in Spain"
Should sonic clean all rolls if we proceed. We have the soundtrack on DA-88
digital tape already preserved.
We have been able to fix "Holiday in Spain" and John Sittig
have committed the extra money on it to fix it to make it ready for
Cinerama's 60th Anniversary
celebration.