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Maysles Films
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen. This special edition also features the 2006 follow-up to the film, The Beales of Grey Gardens, constructed from hours of extra footage in the filmmakers’ vaults.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Audio Interview, Interview, Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Insert, Introduction, Feature Film
- The Beales of Grey Gardens, the 2006 sequel to the film
- Audio commentary for Grey Gardens, featuring Albert Maysles and codirectors Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, along with associate producer Susan Froemke
- New video introduction for The Beales of Grey Gardens by Albert Maysles
- Audio excerpts from a 1976 interview with Little Edie Beale, conducted by Kathryn G. Graham
- Interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens
- Behind-the-scenes photographs
- Trailers
- Insert featuring an essay by Hilton Als
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Release Credits
Producer: Kim Hendrickson
Artwork: Sarah Habibi
Artwork: Shayne Christiansen
Release Notes on Restoration
Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the screen to maintain the proper screen format. This new 2K digital restoration was undertaken in partnership with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The original 16mm A/B camera negative, held in the Academy's collections, was used to create two separate 2K scans, of the A and B rolls, on a Lasergraphics film scanner. These were then assembled into a final master using the existing 35mm blowup color reversal internegative (CRI) as a reference. In addition, a handful of shots in the final master were replaced from the CRI. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, and jitter were manually removed using MTI's DRS and Pixel Farm's PFClean, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for small dirt, grain, noise management, and flicker.
The original monaural soundtrack was restored by Audio Mechanics in Burbank, California, under the supervision of the Academy Film Archive, from an existing 16-bit transfer made from the original 3-track magnetic tracks. Crackle was attenuated and clicks, thumps, and dropouts manually removed using Sonic HD, while hiss and hum were reduced using Cedar. Sound editing and remastering were performed using Pro Tools HD.
The original monaural soundtrack was restored by Audio Mechanics in Burbank, California, under the supervision of the Academy Film Archive, from an existing 16-bit transfer made from the original 3-track magnetic tracks. Crackle was attenuated and clicks, thumps, and dropouts manually removed using Sonic HD, while hiss and hum were reduced using Cedar. Sound editing and remastering were performed using Pro Tools HD.