A screenshot from Cohen Media's "extra" feature - discussing their restoration of SEVEN CHANCES' color prologue:
- CM Technicolor prologue.jpg (48.33 KiB) Viewed 16224 times
Here's a link to the site offering additional comparison images between the Kino and Cohen restorations of SEVEN CHANCES:
http://www.dvdclassik.com/test/blu-ray- ... lu-ray-dvdThe page is in French; an English translation follows below. It sounds as though the CM restoration may have cropped the original image composition ("in order to remove the rounded corners"):
"Fiancées en folie (Seven Chances) is one of thirty films of the Keaton Project, a restoration plan carried out since 2015 by Cohen Media and the Cinémathèque of Bologna, around the works of Buster Keaton filmed between 1920 and 1928. The works were carried out in 4K by Immagine Ritrovata from the best elements provided by the international archives, including "a positive on first generation amber tinted nitrate support" as well as various complementary sources for too damaged shots. The result is quite sumptuous for a film that is over 90 years old. The whole is of a great stability, totally immaculate, but one is especially impressed by the restitution of the silver patina (the fidelity to the grain) and the quality of the rendering of the photograph, precise, detailed, with the range of grays quite nuanced (but blacks decidedly too light, a feature probably true to the original photography). Apart from a few rare shots that we sometimes feel are a little behind, like the introduction in Technicolor bichrome, the viewing conditions are ideal, luxurious ...Compared to the previous reference edition, released by Kino Lorber in 2011, the differences are less obvious concerning the sharpness and the detail but are especially felt for the change of framing (in order to remove the rounded corners), the stability (henceforth found) and the cleaning finally complete. The introduction in Technicolor is also a bit different, probably because the source material is just not the same ."