Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials (1913-1918)

[ryannichols7]

Oddly, I'd almost describe the box design as "Indicator"-esque, if that shows how that group has impacted the boutique home video scene, at least in package design.

covered right before, the box is done by Nick Wrigley, who does all of Indicator's box designs, and you may already know as MOC's former main guy. so no wonder it's that awesome

[sabbath]

Unfortunately, there's been a report on the other forum about ghosting and strange image distortion issues (starting with post #87).

[DeprongMori]

Unfortunately, there's been a report on the other forum about ghosting and strange image distortion issues (starting with post #87).

Have there been any responses to this issue from Eureka? (Is it baked into the materials they received from Gaumont? Is it also present in the recent French Gaumont Blu-ray releases?) The fact that the problem is not present in the Kino discs points to it being a process problem rather than source materials problem. Just received my set today. This is such a great set that it sucks to be saddled with this major error. Fingers crossed there will be replacement discs.

[sabbath]

Unfortunately, there's been a report on the other forum about ghosting and strange image distortion issues (starting with post #87).

Have there been any responses to this issue from Eureka? (Is it baked into the materials they received from Gaumont? Is it also present in the recent French Gaumont Blu-ray releases?) The fact that the problem is not present in the Kino discs points to it being a process problem rather than source materials problem. Just received my set today. This is such a great set that it sucks to be saddled with this major error. Fingers crossed there will be replacement discou

No response from Eureka, but the othe forum members found out the issues actually exist on the 2017 Gaumon Blu-ray as well. The 2012 Kino release of Les Vampires used a different, older restoration, so no issues there, but it turned out that their 2016 release of Fantomas suffered the same issues! So the problem was baked into the master and no chance for Eureka to remedy that.

[denti alligator]

I noticed this when watching the Gaumont disc. I chalked it up to the restoration process and figured it was a small price to pay for a far cleaner image overall. It’s really not that noticeable.

[hearthesilence]

I was actually on the fence about this set since I own Gaumont's standalones for the latter two restorations and Kino's releases for the first two. I'll probably just pass on the whole set - as enticing as some of those extras may be, it just feels like too much of a luxury, and while viewing the teaser, I can definitely see the ghosting in motion.

[videozor]

Exactly which movie from the set is having those issues? Or all of them? Thanks!

[denti alligator]

Les Vampires. Maybe Fantomas. Not the others.

[videozor]

Thanks! Too bad about Les Vampires. I was holding from Kino's BD not only because of the lack of extras, but mostly for absence of the original inter-titles. Well, if I can live with English inter-titles on Kino's Strike, I would survive Les Vampires as well. But one should be careful with MOC' silents in the future - first Pandora, now this set. They used to be to immediately preferable to any other edition for me starting from good old days of DVDs

[denti alligator]

The Gaumont/MoC still looks significantly better, to my eyes.

[videozor]

I trust it is so, but will skip the set for now. In a few years, I believe, MOC will break it into stand alone releases in regular plastic cases and by then, one can hope, that issue will be addressed...