RED DUST (1932) Directed by Victor Fleming.
Published in Spain as TIERRA DE PASION, in a very poor edition by Art House Media/Paycom Media/Cinema International Media, S.L.

Here's a comparison showing the AR difference in the two DVD releases of Godard's Numéro deux (Intermedio 1.37:1, Olive 1.66:1).

Intermedio R2 PAL


Olive R1 NTSC


As you can see, the Olive loses image at the top and bottom but gains on the sides. And the color timing is quite different, the Olive has a lot more detail in the blacks and is less contrasty overall.

A few more:

Intermedio R2 PAL


Olive R1 NTSC


Intermedio R2 PAL


Olive R1 NTSC

Wow, that's a big difference. Are the cropping differences consistent throughout the film? I ask since the opening scene is rather distinct from the rest.

Added a few more screen compares above - it does appear that the differences in framing are consistent throughout.

At the risk of JLG sacrilege, I would say that this looks great at 1.66:1, and the improvement in the transfer quality really seals it for me. Good work, Olive.

Das Weib des Pharao blu-ray random grabs.

"The Leopard" (Visconti, 1963) R2 SD
BFI (Top) vs Gaumont-Pathe (Bottom)

Some grabs from the German (Universum) blu-ray of Der blaue Engel

Caps from the English language version

a teaser for a soon to be released silent...

The Red Lantern?

That was a correct guess

these posts are great,what program do I use to make captures

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I'm guessing ImageShack has added more compression to the frame grabs (note: unlike the last time I made a post like this, this time I AM using a home connection which doesn't recompress the images )

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WOW! That's a vast improvement over the DVD I've got. Excellent film, too, with

Looks like Imageshack has re-compressed those JPEGs (or they were exported at low quality).

The real disc surely can't look like that in terms of compression? (Unlike last time I said this, I'm on my home broadband connection, BTW!)

Is that a screener made using a DVD recorder or a final authored disc?

Indeed - my memory of the film overall is pretty hazy (I last saw it about six years ago as part of a Wajda marathon), but I don't think I could forget that scene if I tried!

I'm watching it right now, and it is indeed a vast improvement on the old Vision disc - physical print quality aside, I suspect it was sourced from a rather elderly analogue telecine, while the source for this was a 2K scan that may well be at least a generation closer to the original neg or IP.

As for my regular framegrab stalker, I've no idea: I didn't create the DVD-R.

If it has features like finished menus and subtitles, it's authored.

Looking back, I'd guess it is just the captures, but for someone who wasn't aware of that, it would give the impression that the disc is shoddily encoded, rather than a downstream process squashing the size. Yeah, I agree that it'll let you see bigger differences in the two discs, I just hope people viewing have enough tech knowledge of the different stages to understand that the screen grabs are just illustrative in that way.

Are you using VLC or something to take them? There's probably an option somewhere to change the JPEG quality level if you're interested.

Fantasmi - Italian Ghost Stories (2011)
A horror omnibus film made up of five episodes, in the vein of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath and Kill, Baby, Kill!
http://www.amazon.it/Fantasmi-Italian-S ... 008EADI3E/

Some random screencaps from the new MaNDA release of Péter Bacsó's A tanú/The Witness:

"La donna più bella del mondo" (Leonard, 1955) Surf Video R2 SD

One of the most striking looking Eastmancolor films, imo, exhibiting a near Technicolor image.

wow! these captures are gorgeous and looks like a blu-ray downscaled to a DVD resolution..

"Fanfan La Tulipe" (Christian-Jaque, 1952) TF1 Video R2 SD

Criterion called this colorized version "remarkable". Remarkably bad, maybe? Okay, some of it's not horrible, but still...