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House of Wax restored – Fire Clip in 3D

19 Nov

I restored this film for my collection a few years ago when the only 3D versions available were either anaglyph or shutter DVD copies of the defunct VHD disks. I started by scouting around for the best shutter DVD version I could find , then buying a retail 2D PAL DVD version. This PAL DVD would be my master, as it would be a frame for frame copy of the 24fps movie, and I found it happened to be the right hand print Using Virtualdub, I separated the left hand image out of the dreadful NTSC interlacing, which, skipped, chopped and changed its rhythm throughout the whole movie. eventually resizing from 640×480 to 720x 576 to match the PAL master. once ripped from the DVD, all encoding was done using Huffy loss-less with the left and right files ending up 90+ GB each. Final editing, synchronisation & Divx 6 encoding was done by Muttyan’s StereoMovieMaker. It took weeks of spare time to complete and I won’t be doing anything like it again!!, I am looking forward to the Bluray 3d version that Warner Bros are rumoured to be releasing within the next year. Two things of note in this clip, Vincent Price has a stunt double for the “back to camera” fight scenes, but dose his own stunt work by running under the collapsing, burning mezzanine/staircase !! The other point of interest is that the evil escaping partner freezes at the door (it must have jammed) at the end of the shot and the pursuing camera has to pan away. The whole movie only took 29 days to shoot and there was probably

 
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