Jeff speaks of the quality of the Republic laserdisc of WONDERFUL LIFE.
 
It may be worth noting that the quality of public domain films is always a
crap shoot since the people who distribute them rarely (never, I'd guess)
have access to original print material.  The quality of prints degrades as
they run through projectors and copies of copies are always degraded with
the result that one is lucky to get an even vaguely good version of what
might have been beautiful in its original release.
 
The more popular the film, the more extended this chain is likely to be.
BIRTH OF A NATION, PROTEMKIN, MODERN TIMES, NANOOK, etc., are seen in anything
like their original quality only in rare archive showing of nitrate prints.
 
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Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia
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