Licensed by Variety Communications, Italy. (1)
FPS: 23.976
Aspect Ratio: 1.78
Region: A
Film
2010 Interpositive from the 16mm Original Camera Negative. (2)
Transfer
No official information but it's clearly a Telecine.
Color Correction / Restoration
Color Correction and Restoration at Heavy Light Digital, New York, US. (3)
Zombie Holocaust was transferred in HD from the Original Negative in Italy to .DPX files. These were shipped on hard drive to Pinewood Studios where they were conformed, the overcut splices were removed, graded, stabilized and extensive automated and hand clean up was performed. No Noise reduction was performed at any stage of this process. The English and Italian audio was transferred to 24 bit .wav and synced up in Pinewood. H264 Compression was at a constant bit rate of 35Mbps to achieve optimal quality. (1)
Licensed by Variety Communications, Italy. (2)
FPS: 23.976
Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Region: B
Film
2-perf 35mm (Techniscope) Original Camera Negative. (3)
Transfer
2K Telecine at Eurolab, Rome, Italy. (4)
- At least one scene is sourced from the old LVR Video Telecine.
Color Correction / Restoration
Color Correction and Restoration at Pinewood Studios, London, UK.
- This release has quite a huge grain structure which is normal since 2-perf (2.35) film stock was used to shoot this 1.85 movie. Basically, the left and right side of the exposed film was discarded in order to get an aspect ratio of 1.85, then the film was scalled by about 28% in order to fill the height of the destination resolution which in this case is 1080p.
FPS: 23.976
Aspect Ratio: 2.35
Region: A
Film
2-perf 35mm (Techniscope) Original Camera Negative.
- The following 2 frames appear one after the other in the movie showing that at least 2 different elements were used to create this release.
Transfer
Telecine on a Cintel DSX at LVR Video, Rome, Italy. (1)
Color Correction / Restoration
No information.
References:
Contamination is presented in it's original aspect of 1.85:1 with mono sound.
Contamination has been exclusively restored in 2K resolution for this release by Arrow Films. The original camera negative was scanned in 2K resolution on a pin-registered Arriscan at L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna. The film was graded on the Baselight grading system at Deluxe Restoration, London.
Thousands of instances of dirt, debris and light scratches were removed through a combination of digital restoration tools. Image stability and density fluctuation issues were also improved. (1)
FPS: 23.976
Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Region: A+B/1+2
Film
35mm Original Camera Negative.
Transfer
Pin-registered 2K Scan on an Arryscan at L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, Italy.
Color Correction / Restoration
Color Correction and Restoration on Baselight at Deluxe, London, UK.
References:
1. Page 18-19 of included booklet.
The film was sourced from the original Techniscope 2-perf 35mm negative made available by Variety Communications, Italy. The pictures was scanned at 2K resolution and fully graded on a Nucoda Film Master at Deluxe Soho, London.
Restoration work was completed in 1080Psf HD resolution using a combination of software tools and techniques. Thousands of instances of dirt, scratches and debris were carefully removed frame by frame. Damaged or missing frames were repaired, and density and stability issues were significantly improved. Throughout the process, care was taken to ensure that the film's original details and grain structure remained unaffected by digital processing. Although every effort has been made to present Zombie Flesh Eaters at the highest quality possible, some minor picture issues remain, in keeping with the condition of the original materials.
Lastly, working from the original 2-perf negative has allowed for access to the entire exposed image area of the film, so we have chosen to retain as much of the original frame area possible for this restoration. (1)
FPS: 23.976
Aspect Ratio: 2.35
Region: B
Film
2-perf 35mm (Techniscope) Original Camera Negative.
Transfer
2K Pin-registered Scan at Technicolor, Italy. (2)
Color Correction / Restoration
Color Correction and Restoration on Nucoda Film Master at Deluxe, London, UK.
Encoding by Crawford Media Services, Atlanta, US. (3)
Note that all Arrow Video's Zombie Flesh Eaters Blu-ray releases offers that same encode (FCD704, FCD704B, FCD705).
References:
1. Page 39 of included booklet.
2. PM from Arrow Video.
3. Slate at the end of credits.
