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Author Topic: Has anyone seen The Godfather DCP? Steven J Hart Master Film Handler Posts: 282 From: WALES, ND, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 02-13-2012 09:08 PM                        We are playing "The Godfather" on February 26th as part of our classic movie series. Paramount has a new DCP edition. I wonder if it's worth the extra $50 bucks to book this instead of just playing the Blu-Ray?  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 02-14-2012 10:55 AM                     I try to avoid watching projected bluray - DCP's have better colour, contrast and sharpness. The DCP edition must be making the rounds since there is a poster for 'The Godfather' being shown on the XD screen over at the Egyptian 24 on March 1st. Since the bluray hidef transfer was done at 4K, I'd also assume the DCP would look closer to the high transfer data rate than bluray resolution.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 02-14-2012 11:26 AM                     If it's anything like the Blu-ray transfer, or the new 35mm print I saw, I'd say yeah, it'll look fantastic. Robert A. Harris has outdone himself on this one. AJG  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-14-2012 11:38 AM                        I've seen an original dye-transfer print within the last couple of years and can say that it looks better than any of the other options. Not that this is really a surprise. Get one of these from an archive, if possible.  |  IP: Logged Steven J Hart Master Film Handler Posts: 282 From: WALES, ND, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 02-14-2012 06:55 PM                        Thanks for the input. I booked the DCP version today. Scott, Paramount told me they don't have a 35mm print available for this date (or maybe at all or maybe just not for us who knows). I can see that the dye transfer print would look great, but I wonder if the optical sound would even come close to that of the DCP version? Steve  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-14-2012 10:37 PM                     The 35mm dye transfer prints were SRD. I ran one.  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 02-14-2012 10:53 PM                     There's an IB print in Australia that we show every now and again. Very nice piece of work... I imagine they'll junk it now they've got the DCP, that's what they did for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. (that said, the prints of TIFFANY'S weren't that nice and were too yellow, and the 4K DCP is very very good)  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-15-2012 05:32 AM                        quote: Brad Miller The 35mm dye transfer prints were SRD. I ran one. Not the originals. Do _not_ get the 25th anniversary reissue prints. Those are terrible. The recent restoration is good, but the originals from the 1970s are better.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-16-2012 12:39 AM                     Question I have is: I ran the original release that summer of 1972 as a first run feature in a changeover house, (obviously, an IB print and mono optical sound) and now hear that the releases comes with a SR-D sound release. Are these new SR-D releases, a stereo print and wonder how the studio did a stereo mix since the original releases were just in mono?  |  IP: Logged Steven J Hart Master Film Handler Posts: 282 From: WALES, ND, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 02-16-2012 07:13 AM                        I recently played True Grit (1969) and it appeared that the studio inserted a stereo track of the opening music but left the rest of the soundtrack alone.  |  IP: Logged Paul H. Rayton Expert Film Handler Posts: 210 From: Los Angeles, CA , USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 02-18-2012 11:44 AM                    On many, MANY older movies, the studios recorded the music tracks in stereo, even if the ultimate release prints (at the time) were to be in mono. Think music from the soundtrack albums, for example. So the stereo masters from much of that era still exist (called "stems", as in parts of the movie), and can be brought back for another go-round, esp. now that stereo sound is almost demanded in every possible version and venue. There are prints now of "A Clockwork Orange" with full digital stereo audio music, even though that movie never had any stereo playdates when it first came out in 1971. And, IMHO, even though it's a bit "revisionist" to say so, that electronic music sounds amazing in the updated version.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-18-2012 01:37 PM                     Many/most major studio productions dating back to the '40's were multi tracks mixed down to mono, so depending on the archiving there's a good chance of recovering something akin to stereo if anyone wanted to.  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 02-18-2012 06:37 PM                     The same with the DCP of TAXI DRIVER - the dialogue is the standard mono, but they went back to the multi-track masters for the music , did a 5.1 mix, and it sounds absolutely phenomenal. Actually the other film that really surprised me was MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL - the new print we show is in SR-D and they really had a spot of fun (in a good way) with that mix. And now that they've found the multi-track (or at least stereo) masters for CONAN THE BARBARIAN...  |  IP: Logged

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