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Topic: Correct aspect ratio and Dolby format for 35mm "Eraserhead"?
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 10-07-2015 12:17 PM
I also have a vague memory of playing a re-release in the late '90s that was specifically marked SR.
We know that the SVA track isn't original (that release was mono), and so if it the audio was remastered in the late '90s or later, I can't think of any reason why it would be A-Type. France continued to release new movies with A-Type audio into the late '90s: I remember this because I was working in an arthouse in England at the time, which showed a lot of French movies. If memory serves me correctly, the last A-type new release I showed was Secret défense. But the rest of the world had moved to SR (or very occasionally one of the knockoff SVA systems, e.g. DTS Stereo) by the middle of that decade. So if a full-scale remastering of the Eraserhead audio took place in the late '90s, resulting in an SVA final mix, I'd have expected it to be SR.
Maybe FotoKem labelled the 2012 print I'm showing tomorrow as simply "stereo", because they struck it from a 1990s final mix track dupe neg that wasn't properly labelled itself, and so they simply didn't know either?
Whatever the answer, I'm going to have to fit a listening test into tomorrow afternoon's show prep. Thanks again everyone.
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