I saw some of the remastered Chaplin films a couple years ago and was blown away by their richness. All the subtlety of shadow and tone you'd expect in a classic b&w photograph was in those films originally, but there wasn't a trace of it left in the degraded versions we grew up on--not even in the actual film versions I saw at the Silent Theater in Los Angeles when I was a kid.
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