Betty's Pub 20.1
Main Menu => Old inactive posts. => Topic started by: Betty on August 12, 2013, 11:42:51 PM
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Finally had a chance to go through those old VHS tapes stored in my office years ago during the fire. Found a Super-VHS quality version (normally S-VHS is about DVD quality... made before they had user recordable DVDs back then), of Almost Angels.
I unpacked one of 2 Super-VHS machines stored away in a box for a long time. The tape, although not played since the 1990s played perfectly on a Super-VHS machine I rebuilt after the fire (both were severely damaged). The machine ran flawlessly even though it hasn't been turned on for over 5 years (I fixed it good).
The bad is, the movie wasn't broadcast in DVD quality when I taped it off the cable in the 1990s. I've posted clips of this movie before (in the 1990s), from the ordinary VHS tape I had before this copy. The newer copy didn't look much better so I reposted the pix I already had after I was able to enhance them better in about 2003 or 2004. The ordinary VHS tape had no commercials. The S-Vhs tape has some commercials. So was in the old office to be erased for security tapes.
Anywho, because of modern technology of today, & the s-vhs copy was recorded in 400p instead of 240i, just poking around for a demo, I was able to much improve the pic over my old posts of the movie. Originally I didn't think the pic looked much better on s-vhs, but copied onto a sony stand alone DVD recorder (also rebuilt from the fire), thrown through my primary computer (rebuilt after the fire too... bigger stronger), it looks much better than the old pix. Converted to MKV from VOB DVD, I edited out the commercials with no loss in quality.
Here's just a preview of some of the processed caps of the video. I'll post more at a later date when I have time to process the whole film & more clips:
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Like I said, it wasn't broadcast in good quality in the first place. But this is the best quality of it that I've seen around. Yep, that's an all male cast. I'll post a larger, higher quality versions of caps if you want it later. I want to re-process the video a little more & spend at least more than a few minutes processing each cap to squeeze as much quality as I can out of them before posting them... this is just a quick preview of how I got it so far. I could do a lot better now that I digitized it, & get around to work with it for a long time.
Even without to dressing up segment near the last quarter of the film, this was a fun movie to watch, & got rave reviews. Of course for modern days, this is considered a boring film of no value. But if you were alive in those days through the 1980s, if you put yourself in the mindset of those days, you can enjoy it again, or if you never saw it before.
This is another one that has been pulled from ever being re-run from cable & satellite because it featured choir boys in drag during the last quarter of the film. But unlike YCDT, they didn't destroy all copies. So it is still available, but in no clearer version than this (Amazon).
How many of us were choir boys, altar boys, or in the glee/theater club as kids because it was the closest thing we could get to wear something like a dress & ruffles & get away with it?
About the 1962 movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055740/
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