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Author Topic: Citizen Kane Richard P. May Expert Film Handler Posts: 243 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jan 2006 posted 05-25-2008 12:01 PM                     CITIZEN KANE is part of the Turner Entertainment/WB library, and is distributed by WB's Classics office. DM  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-25-2008 02:09 PM                        The rights to CITIZEN KANE is controlled by Time Warner and is a part of Turner Entertainment library of films and not Criterion. I believe the film was distributed to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures and Time Warner owns most or All of their library of films. Criterion is a DVD distribution company and a division of Janus Films. I have the deluxe edition of CITIZEN KANE on DVD and the transfer is excellent and so is the mono sound, I first saw this movie in a theatre when I was a little boy when my parents took my brother and sister and I to see it. Because I have always considered it one of my favorite films, I would not mind seeing it again on the big screen someday. -Claude  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-25-2008 05:01 PM                     Wasn't there a mistake awhile ago where someone sold digitally 'cleaned-up' KANE DVD's, but ended up accidently removing the rain from some scenes?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-25-2008 06:15 PM                        Digital does seem to have that propensity. When IMAX demonstrated the results of a DMR blowup to SMPTE in NY, they screened the conversion of APOLLO 13. Before the film the IMAX tech told us that when the software was "cleaning" the film grain during the conversion, for the shot of the astronaut's glove filled with sand and the sand spilling through the fingers, the software removed the sand. The tech explained that they had to go back and tell the computer to put the sand back in, stupid. It got a big laugh.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-25-2008 06:45 PM                     They had the same kind of thing shown as an extra on a recent Wizard of OZ DVD I had gotten my mom. Since the different layers of film didn't end up lining up properly (each of the originals had warped at random amounts), they ended up having where the correct general image would come through on transfer but randomly there'd be a spot of, say, red because the magenta layer hadn't been lined up right. So they created an automated way to remove those spots. This worked great at first until they noticed that the ruby slippers were no longer red since the computer assumed that they were so red that it had to be the magenta layer being the bad one.  |  IP: Logged Jack Theakston Master Film Handler Posts: 411 From: New York, USA Registered: Sep 2007 posted 05-27-2008 10:17 AM                     Similarly, when Transitfilm in Munich was doing the restoration of METROPOLIS, they were using automated software to clean the image up. They found that whenever something moved fast-- an arm swinging, or a paper being folded up, it all of a sudden disappeared, because the computer was recognizing it as something that was only in the frame for a second and therefore must be a speck to remove. Needless to say, we've come a long way in eight years, but there are still problems, particularly with studio de-graining the image and then "sharpening" it again with edge enhancement to the point where the image is a smoothed-over, over-enhanced mess.  |  IP: Logged

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