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English, August Restoration

A surprise package was waiting for me yesterday evening.
Jaya Vasant the gracious Senior Manager from the Prasad Group sent me a disk with a sample of restored clips from English, August.

Here is a sample. It’s a long-long process to get this completed.

Let me know what you think.

English, August Restoration sample from dev benegal on Vimeo.

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Negative Not Suitable

April 20th.
I get this message from the Prasad Group:

It has been informed that the negative may not be suitable for the restoration work but the Print is usable.

So there. In a single line there goes my first movie.

But as Douglas Adams said, “Don’t Panic.”

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Lessons Learnt from the restoration of English, August — Moving On

Filmmaker Shripriya asks what I did for Road, Movie.

  • I moved all the negative to Deluxe Laboratories.
  • We scanned our final cut at 2K and made a Digital Intermediate.
  • Our original aspect ratio was 2.35:1 at 4 perf. We got a much larger area of negative to scan. The result was way better than a 4k scan of a 2 perf negative or even a 3 perf negative.
  • I’d strongly recommend doing this if you are originating on film.
  • One of our delivery requirements for world sales was a 35mm Internegative.
  • We did that too and it is housed in Technicolor Rome.
  • The Indian Distributors have their own 35mm Negative.
  • They asked for a drive with the DPX files to create a new Digital Negative and their own copy of the Dolby 5.1 final mix.

I’m hoping all bases are covered and we are in a better position than English, August.

As always fingers are crossed and one holds ones breath.