Comments on: Archive.org’s Sanshiro Sugata http://akirakurosawa.info/2007/08/26/archiveorgs-sanshiro-sugata/ News, information and discussion on the Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ben http://akirakurosawa.info/2007/08/26/archiveorgs-sanshiro-sugata/#comment-5220 Ben Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:47:59 +0000 http://akirakurosawa.info/2007/08/26/archiveorgs-sanshiro-sugata/#comment-5220 There are clear amounts of dirt and scratches, thought the center of the frame is generally quite clean. There is also considerable flicker in some scenes, but the print has decent brightness, sharpness and contrast, seemingly as good or better then the VHS versions when watching the larger MPEG4 file. I have not tested the DIVX file as I don't currently have that program loaded on my comp. On first glance the aspect ratio appears to be the correct 1.37:1 There are clear amounts of dirt and scratches, thought the center of the frame is generally quite clean. There is also considerable flicker in some scenes, but the print has decent brightness, sharpness and contrast, seemingly as good or better then the VHS versions when watching the larger MPEG4 file.
I have not tested the DIVX file as I don’t currently have that program loaded on my comp.

On first glance the aspect ratio appears to be the correct 1.37:1

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