Pretty Baby 1978 Original Vhs Rip - Uncut- 1 Page

October 26, 2023 Category: Celluloid Ghosts / Obscure Media

The official release has a teal-and-orange push. The VHS rip is pink . Faded, bleeding, sunburnt pink. Faces look like porcelain dolls left in a window. It actually mirrors the autochrome photography of the 1910s better than the modern scan does. The modern scan wants you to see it as a movie. The VHS rip wants you to see it as a decaying photograph. Pretty Baby 1978 Original vhs rip - UNCUT- 1

Have you seen this cut? Did you own the original Video Treasures clamshell? Let me know in the comments—but keep the discourse academic, please. To be perfectly clear, this blog post discusses the preservation of film history and the specific analog qualities of VHS degradation. The film’s subject matter is difficult; the format does not excuse the content, but it does contextualize the censorship war of the 1980s. Watch responsibly. October 26, 2023 Category: Celluloid Ghosts / Obscure

For the past decade, I have been chasing a ghost. Specifically, the ghost of Louis Malle’s 1978 cinematic powder keg, Pretty Baby . And last week, I finally found it in a dusty file folder labeled: Faces look like porcelain dolls left in a window