Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)

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Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 08-23-2005, 03:03 PM:

Almost excellent transfer in "Widescreen" of the '63 Jerry Lewis film. The only problem is for about 5-10 seconds of a closeup of Stella Stevens, where the film smears/blurs vertically. Otherwise the Technicolor comes through great and it's very sharp and artifact free. Lots of "extras". This film made it into the top 100 funniest films of all time. (#99)

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-23-2005, 03:20 PM:

quote: Greg Mueller
Otherwise the Technicolor comes through great and it's very sharp and artifact free.

I doubt the transfer was made from a dye transfer print, so technically, "the Eastman Color Negative comes through great", or maybe B&W separation preservation masters had been made.

If films from that era were processed and stored properly, they often can still yield very good color with modern restoration techniques.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 08-23-2005, 06:38 PM:

Or they could have done a great job on color correction with a faded negative.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-23-2005, 08:42 PM:

I would think that all of Jerry's films are well protected. He is no dummie and he is still VERY popular in certain countries.

Mark

Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 08-24-2005, 09:33 AM:

However it was done, Richard Mueller's (Technicolor)work shows through in a very stunning manner. I saw this in it's original release and remember being impressed at the brilliant color, but of course did not know why it was so brilliant. Watching the DVD now I can see that they used a lot of colorfull objects in each shot, to show off the Technicolor. The colors are amazing

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-24-2005, 08:09 PM:

Jerry's films always had that cranked up Technicolor look to them and they are usually eye poppers to say the least. I will be running several Technicolor prints of Jerry's films in the near future and look forword to seeing them again in Glorius Technicolor!!

Mark

Posted by Jerry Axelsson (Member # 3175) on 09-06-2005, 08:10 AM:

Greg, I have to agree with you regarding the dvd of "THE NUTTY PROFESSOR". This is one of the better dvd:s I have seen of an older Technicolor film.

Jerry

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-06-2005, 07:01 PM:

I ran a 35mm dye transfer print of "Who's Minding The Store" last Saturday night and the color in that is also a knock out. I.B. just seems to reproduce colors that still don't even register on Eastman print film for some reason or other. I suppose that its just also the dyes themselves thata re used. After the Nutty Professor my favorite Lewis films would be "The Bellboy", "The Errand boy", and then "Who's Minding The Store"... The vacuum cleaner sequence at the end is definately a classic!. The rest of his comedy(?) films perhaps with the exception of "Cinderfella" are just silly and sometimes just stupid no nonsensical films.

Mark

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 09-07-2005, 11:21 AM:

Lewis was smart enough to obtain the rights to the negatives and remakes after seven years of use by Paramount of the original film productions...prior to the present day evolvement of cable and home video.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-07-2005, 07:42 PM:

quote: Richard Fowler
Lewis was smart enough to obtain the rights to the negatives and remakes after seven years of use by Paramount

Bet he was tipped off by Hitchcock on that one.....

Mark

Posted by Alan Gouger (Member # 543) on 09-08-2005, 10:02 AM:

They just aired the movie in HiDefinition on HD NET. Looked great.
I beleive they used the same HD transfer to make the DVD.
Fun movie.