I have a crazy idea, start with the entire rooftop concert then work backwards, a kind of "see how the project evolved" kind of thing?
If anyone could clean up the grain in the Let it Be Footage and have it look better than it did on the "Beatles 1" Blu-ray is Peter Jackson. Paul Rutan Jr. did a great job cleaning up Help and Yellow Submarine, he could be involved too?
Who did the lousy restoration work on MMT? That was pretty horrible, with all the facial tones leaving people looking like lobsters.
16mm grain is actually pretty manageable these days. The trick is doing it without artifacts. Note that Park Road Post (Jackson's company) just uses off-shelf tools and software to do all this, so you can get the same results anywhere in the world if they know what they're doing. Mr. Rutan is mostly retired and has some health issues, and he deals only with the raw film elements, not digital restorations. I believe Apple Corps scanned all the Let It Be negative several years ago, so the hard part is already done.
He is very talented and wish him the best health wise...... The results on the Beatles 1 Blu-ray was incredible except for the "Let it Be" clips............it was such a stark difference............
With Peter Jackson doing this project I wonder if they are going to do a big summer blockbuster kind of release and tie it in with the 2020 remix? I'm sure it will get a lot of pub.
Facebook post by SiriusXM: "Have you ever watched The Beatles' iconic rooftop concert? Well you haven't seen the half of it, according to Ringo Starr. Find out what he thinks of Peter Jackson's upcoming ‘Let It Be’ documentary film." https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=481343279290901
I'm sure people will cry foul if the original cut of the film isn't included, but we've all seen it and it's not going to be a better film because the celluloid has been cleaned up. I'm happy to hear that Jackson is taking the footage and re-telling this story, but I do hope he's honest about the discord and the disorganization, and what a hard slog it was for The Beatles to get to the rooftop. There's a good snatching-victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat story in January 1969, if they're willing to tell it.
This is the one film in which revisionism is not entirely a bad thing. I hope there is some stuff with John being goofy like this. Would like to see a cleaned up vid. There is a longer version that has more John than Paul (Paul can come across as cloying at times when joining in a humorous moment)
