Film Restoration Explained with Studio Archivist Charlotte Barker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Charlotte Barker, Director of Film Preservation and Restoration at Paramount Pictures, takes us behind the scenes of how film restoration really works. From 4K to film grain, this is an eye-opening discussion about how movies are given new life!
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Film Restoration Explained with Studio Archivist Charlotte Barker
When does twisters come out on 4k blu ray
@@CerealAtMidnight that's great thank you so much for all of the links.
That was too short of an interview! I worked at WB for 30 years in sound restoration and preservation so it's always great to hear about other studio's programs. Now I have to go catch up on all the Perf Damage podcasts! Thank you Heath and Charlotte.
Give us an interview about your stories
Man, Heath you are getting more on the inside of the biz every week. Keep it up.
What a great conversation -- that 43 minutes just flew by! Hopefully Charlotte will be back -- there are so many topics to dig into. Once Upon a Time in the West 🍿
Heath, Wow! This may be my favorite episode/guest ever! I hope she comes back again! My other top favorite episode of yours is the Star Trek The Motion Picture Director’s Edition 4K.
He's knocking it out the park. Great interview for sure.
Heath, thank you, thank you, thank you! Awesome interview. This is the kind of stuff nobody else does. I hope you have Charlotte back on, in the future. It was very interesting, hearing her details on what goes into restoration. I loved the anecdote about the “wires” from War of the Worlds. It’s great they take restoration so seriously. I previously thought it was only about the dollars, and what bosses “wanted”, in order to sell the most product. Keep up the excellent work Heath!
Heath you interview the coolest people. Film restoration would be a fun and frustrating job.
Great video-I love stuff like this. The behind-the-scenes and technical side of filmmaking has always been fascinating to me. The Matthew Robbins story about Dragonslayer is much like allowing Robert Wise to go back and finish Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
So cool that Charlotte has restored Ragtime, one the greatest films that nobody ever talks about anymore. I saw it on release in 1981 and reviewed it for the college newspaper and just loved it. Also saw Dragonslayer on the big screen that year.
The restoration of the 1953 The War of the Worlds is absolutely amazing, both in terms of the stunning picture but also the 5.1 surround sound mix, which is brilliant. I just love this film anyway but the restoration is...out of this world!
Agreed, the Blu-ray was stunning both visually and aurally, but the Aussie [Imprint] slipcase edition which I missed out on, had a couple more and different bonus features included than those of Criterion's version. Both were single disc issues as well... [Imprint] also released George Pal's "When Worlds Collide" on Blu-ray the next year after "TWOTW". Apparently, that issue had an excellent transfer and included a fair number of bonus features beyond what was on Paramount's original DVD.
@denniskristos3800 I am a huge fan of TWOTW. I got the Imprint lenticular 4k box set release. It's beautiful. I'm sure it's still available to buy if you do a Google search. When it was first released on 4k blu-ray I bought the paramount release. I had previously also bought it on blu-ray and dvd. As I say, I'm a huge fan!
I agree--the 5.1 mix is so layered, with different Martian death rays coming from different channels, and that slinky sound when the Martians' periscope first appears from the rear channels to get a good look at the hapless onlookers approaching waving a white flag royally gives me the creeps! The 5.1 upsamples really nicely to Atmos through Neural X too! When the church is lasered at the end, you feel like the church is collapsing on your head!
@michaelkuhlman883 I do have an atmos set up, and it's certainly rather good 👍
@@michaelkuhlman883 The unscrewing of the cylinder, punctuated by the cover hitting the ground and its decaying "clang" effect, was quite startling too.
Great interview, Heath. I love her attitude to her work. I think the future is bright with her saving films for the future. I will definitely be subscribing to her channel.
Thank you!! This means so much.
Cool to be with likewise movie lovers talking your hearts out to us. If only we can all be together. Infact when I see a film at the BFI in London and it's usually packed what a joy you can just feel the arditorium buzzing with people who love the cinema and films from the ages.🎉
Great talk, and very informative. It's folks like Charlotte I'm sure a lot of film fans like to hear from.
Thanks for sharing Heath & Charlotte!!
This was just superb,Charlotte was great and a blessing in sharing this with us.Another great insight from those behind the scenes which helps flesh out the very thing that we love and enjoy.Blessings again to you Mr Heath,you are reaping the fruit of your labours.
She worked on Once Upon a Time in the West! What an amazing experience that must have been, and cool project!
This interview is pure gold, thanks Heath!
This is what sets your channel apart. Love seeing these interviews.
Blind buy dragonslayer, great interview 👍
One of the most interesting things about this was how she said sometimes they hide wires (wotw), but not all wires, or do grain management that reviewers have not detected...
I think my one ask would be that there be a detailed restoration feature about each movie, even if it is just a write up.
Maybe we can address that in a future discussion.
I'm curious about which grain management exactly, because some reviewers have turned really incompetent (or weirdly lenient) towards recent grain REMOVED (management is a euphemism, marketing) restorations. You have to turn to forums to get more competent or honest reviews, and there people have caught on.
@TucoRope2Tight Just remember that what you see in any online review is an opinion, never a fact. The only person who can speak to the facts are those who worked on the film. Reviewers, including myself, make educated guesses about what they see, but we're often wrong, or we're stating our opinion and preference. More and more, I'm seeing misinformation passed around as a solid, verified fact when that's not the case. This goes for the major review sites all the way down to the Blu-ray dot com forums and even Reddit. Take anything you read anywhere with a grain of salt.
Just hit Barnes & Noble and picked up the restoration of Ragtime on Blu Ray that Charlotte showed us here. It was more than I normally pay for a film, but it has been a hard-to-find title, and I'm heeding the call to support physical media and restoration. Looking forward to giving it a view tonight. Again, Heath, you are a great resource on TH-cam.
The puppy in the t p is something 🤘🐕🤘
The fire reflection in the water for the movie Dragonslayer is at 1h30 into the film. 😅
I knew someone would know!
Seeing good people like Charlotte handling restorations, some of which are stunning to the eyes, is all the more reason I love and support great studios putting dedicated quality efforts into Physical Media. Like Sony, or especially Paramount.
It is always a pleasure to listen to a person who is knowledgeable, articulate & passionate about who she/he does.
Charlotte is one of them. Thanks for the video.
Really interesting interview. Thanks both!
Would love to see an interview with the Disney equivalent. Now they dont let boutiques licence the Disney and Fox titles, and they haven't added anything archive to Disney+ in ages, I wonder what their archivists actually do.
I have several friends on the Disney Archive team, and they do very similar work. Keep in mind that Archives and Home Media/Licensing are two completely separate entities within huge corporations. Just because titles aren’t being released, doesn’t mean they’re not being cared for!
@PerfDamagePodcast That's actually very good to hear.
I just wish Disney would find more outlets for their work to be appreciated
Wow. What an amazing interview. This was very elucidating and educational!
This was a great interview! Charlotte seems like one of the good ones. I appreciate her approach to grain management (i.e,. minimal). I do think some Paramount titles, presumably done by others, go a little too far the other way. As a friendly suggestion from a fellow classic film lover, perhaps she could pass along to the audio department that along with faithful video transfers "as the filmakers intended" we would like original audio mixes included with these films. New 5.1 and Atmos sound is really cool as a bonus, but excluding the original mono or stereo is a huge bummer and not inline with filmakers intentions. They should be preserved as well.😊 Encoding could be improved too, but Im sure shes heard THAT complaint a million times already, so I'll leave it at that. Thanks again for a terrific interview!
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that when we restore a film we ALWAYS preserve the original audio mix. Now, whether that ends up on the disc is completely out of my control (as is the encoding), as this is handled by a separate department. Just know that the original mixes along with the picture are always being preserved. (Personally, I’d love to see a Perspecta audio track make it to disc someday!)
@PerfDamagePodcast I figured it was likely out of your department, but please let those others know we DO want them on disc (if possible). And yes to Perspecta! Thanks so much for responding. I'll check out the podcast too.
Such a great interview!
I learned so much. It is great to see and hear two people passionately discuss film.
Hi Heath. A really interesting interview and a timely one. I’m just back from the UK where I got to visit the BFI archive, which was an amazing experience. I’m working on a video about it now, which I hope to have up in the next few days. Nice to hear Charlotte talk about collaborating with the likes of the BFI. All the work they do is awe-inspiring
Dude! Thnx for this awesome interview! I found it so interesting
I hope Paramount starts to release Paramounts early (1920s-1950s). titles. Out of all the studios Paramount seems to release the least amount of classicsz
Sadly Paramount doesn't own most of these films anymore. They were sold to MCA/Universal in the 1950s.
I'll add to what Charlotte said and say that Universal has put many of those 1930s and 1940s Paramount films (now MCA/Universal titles) on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber at a rate of several a month for the last few years.
This work is so important! Thanks for highlighting it by interviewing Ms Barker!
Fantastic interview thank you Heath and Charlotte!
Heath! This was awesome! I want more! I would love a round 2, this was such a great conversation… Thank you both for doing this. And if an opportunity arises I would love a part 2. I kept wanting to raise my hand and ask more questions 😂
If you've got some questions, ask them below and we'll do our best to get to them in a future chat!
@CerealAtMidnight I'd like to hear a discussion around the links between the archive team and the team creating the discs (internal and the boutiques licensing). Do the disc team request a restoration made? Or does the restoration come first? How much of the work do the boutiques do? Do they ever borrow and scan the films for example? Can they request a restoration to be made? And what work do the archive team complete outside preparing material for disc/stream release?
Another area I would like to hear a discussion around is the lost movies. Are Paramount involved at all in hunting for their lost material? How often does the archive receive previously lost material back and how exciting is that for Charlotte? What are Charlotte's personal most wanted lost Paramounts?
Such awesome guests and insight on this channel
This was a great interview
Great interview! So much knowledge exchanged. Just subscribed to perf damage.
Dragonslayer has one of the best atmos remixes ever outside of sony‘s incredible catalogue. And the picture looks absolutely incredible…
Thank you Charlotte for making it happen!❤️
Keep on not degraining films!
I love film preservation and restoration. Part of me would love to do that, but I’m probably hindered by not having touched film since I took photography in HS 26 years ago and not really wanting to move out of suburban NJ.
I really enjoyed this discussion ! Both your love of movies is so obvious and contagious. A respectful and positive discussion about loving an art and preserving it. Great to watch.
What an amazing interview. I was hooked. Restoring film sounds like a great job.
Great interview Heath! Thank you Charlotte! I could have listened for another hour. Please do another one ASAP
I want hear someone talk about Saturday Night Fever and Footloose. Two movies I love and two 4K transfers that I hate. If someone from the restoration team could speak on why they look the way they do would go so far for me in excepting them for what they are. It is the lack of information from studios that causes so much negative feedback on certain things. IMHO
Thanks so much. Its reassuring that people like Charlotte cares so much about author's intent.
👍👍
So good to hear from someone who actually does the work,
thanks both of you for a great discussion
please have Charlotte back to continue if that's possible and she can spare the time
How about classic films that reflect murderous bigoted dictatorships, like the films m, made under Stalin, Hilter, and Mao.
Great conversation! Charlotte is doing the Lord's work!
Yes, Charlotte helped Kino Lorber secure the rights of the 3D versions of money from home for restoration as much as the man who was not there.
You are dealing with people who are not fans of film history going back to the beginning of the film.
Fantastic interview. Great insight on the film grain too.
She must have helped Kino Lorber and Bob Fermanek to be able to restore Money from home.
You can transfer a digitally restored film back to film stock.
12:45 - I've heard a rumor that this was done for the Indiana Jones 4Ks?
The "Dragonslayer" Blu-ray is nothing short of perfection. Beautiful job, Charlotte. Thank you from this member of the cult... 🤗
Thank you!!❤
Great interview. Very informative. 👍
This was fantastic! Thanks Heath 👏
Great stuff. Just great.
Not Under a Texas moon yet.
Fascinating!
great interview
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