BRIAN DE PALMA's PHANTOM 40th Anniversary Restoration HD (new, 2014)

[FONT=&amp]Immediately prior to the release of Phantom of the Paradise, Director Brian De Palma and editor Paul Hirsch were obliged to remove from the film most references to “Swan Song Enterprises”, Swan’s record company, because of the similarity of the name to that of a real-life record company. The edits were made hastily, and marred the look of the film. [/FONT]
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Now, after 40 years, fans can finally experience Brian De Palma's PHANTOM like never before.[/FONT]
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This version utilizes the original footage salvaged by the Swan Archives, transfered from 35mm to HD and meticulously restored, and aims to present the film to the way we believe it had looked prior to these last-minute mutilations. All the deleted footage was enhanced and color-corrected to match the rest of the film. Some of the original audio and soundtrack cues that would have matched the deleted footage have never been found, and had to be recreated and mixed with the original 1974 stereo mix, preserved from a lossless source. By comparing this version to the theatrical release, we can see how the movie was (ironically, given the film’s story) disfigured against its creators’ wishes, to suit the whims of corporate rightsholders.[/FONT]
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This unofficial HD recreation of the director's cut was restored for Brian De Palma, whose perfect film should have never been mutilated by those greaseballs.[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]ALTERATIONS / RESTORATIONS
- Original 1974 uncropped "20th Century Fox"™ logo restored.
- Original "Brian De Palma's PHANTOM" title restored.
- The Swan Song marquee/Winslow in front of the Magestic scene is fully restored.
- The transitory "Dead Bird" logo has been deleted.
- Restored extened shot: the "Swan Song Plaza" street sign is reinserted.
- Uncut scene: Winslow meets Swan's greasers in the hallway.
- The uncropped "Swan Song" rolodex shot has been restored.
- The greasers kick Winslow out / Restored "Swan Song Enterprise" sign.
- Alternate/uncut footage of Winslow barging in Swan's office.
- Full length unaltered shot of the "Swan Song" black boxes at Swan's factory.
- Uncut footage from inside Swan's vault 1
- Uncut footage from inside Swan's vault 2
- The camera during the montage scene (Beauty & The Beast) is reinserted
- All the Dead Bird vs. Swan Song logos during the airport scene have been fixed.
- Alternate "Swan Song" footage of Winslow spying on Swan from the rooftop.
- Extended scene: Winslow explores Swan's vault and finds the contract.
- Extended scene: Swan arrives at the Paradise.
- Swan's video contract: all the dead bird logos are now fixed.
- The video player's logo during Swan's contract scene is fixed.
- Swan Song logo restored on the multiple monitors (3 shots + during end credits)
- Bill Finley dedication added after the end credits[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]* All the alternate footage in this new restoration is HD-sourced and untagged.[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]SD [360p][/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Video : h264 | 640x360 | 1.85:1 A.R. | 23.976fps | 900 kb/s.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Audio : English | original sound mix 2.0 | AAC 255k. [/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Runtime : 01:33:08[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Format : mp4[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Size : 770 mb[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Release date : July 4, 2014[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]HD [720p] [/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]Video : h264 | 1280x720 | 1.85:1 A.R. | 23.976fps | 8.700 kb/s.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Audio : English | original sound mix 2.0 | AAC 338k. [/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Runtime : 01:33:08[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Format : mp4[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Size : 5.9 gb[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Release date : July 4, 2014[/FONT]

Sir, you are awesome! Thank you SO MUCH for making this! :clap2:

I'm speechless. Thank you.

I watched this last night and i gotta be honest, it wasn't that well done. The added footage had a bad stuttering problem at least on the 720p version, didn't color match the rest of the movie, and wasn't spliced in well (badly faded over non-matching frames most of the time). The overlay on the podium was also very awkward and jittery, and again didn't color match the scene, pure white is not the color of the banner. It honestly didn't add anything to that scene, the bird logo being there detracted nothing from it but the bad Swan logo overlay did. The audio was well edited except the original audio for this movie is a 4.0 mix, not 2.0 as the edit claims. I can see what the intention was with the edit and it's a very good intention, the execution just isn't great and could do with another pass. If you take another pass at the edit before authoring the Blu version of it you might want to consider waiting for Shout Factory's release in a few weeks, they claim to have color corrected Arrows transfer and also have 40 minutes of alternate takes on top of the 10 minutes of Swan footage in hi-def.

Wonder if Brian De Palma is aware of this edit in the same way as Raising Cain?