But, I did limit the audio mix to 2 tracks to try and avoid that problem of just too much audio soup in the pot. It is just too much and can result in an audio track of unintelligible dialogue. With this film I didn't take the advice I had previously given you of not mixing background noise, wind sounds, car sounds, poorly recorded dialogue and music all together. All those GD eyeballs previewing a project and still they can produce crap. I marvel at some of the big productions with zillions of people working on them. So I wanted to get some feedback as to the audio. Normally I just add projector sound to silent movies, but I felt this one could benefit from some Christmas music mixed in. There was a discussion recently on the forum about unintelligible dialogue and unbearably loud sound in movies. I was concerned with the sound I used on this film. They would rent out their film collection and they service as a projectionist to college fraternities and bachelor parties. They also had stag librarians that were similar to the 'D.J.s' we have now. Back in the day, many men's fraternal organizations and lodges maintained a library of stag films for their members to view on stag night festivities. The film originated from a stag film librarian's collection. The book Dirty Movies: An illustrated History of the Stag Film 1915-1970 Di Lauro & Rabkin 1976 has no listing for the film. In the movie it shows Christmas on the calendar near the bed falling on a Monday. The film is a dupe and it could have been produced in a different year and duped in the year dated on the film stock. But neither date is necessarily what it could be. The film stock code dates it at either 1928 or 1948. The films for art students or graphic art students were labeled as such to bypass censorship laws. Still, it is a most welcome and rare time capsule from bygone era. Most of the shadow and highlight detail are gone. The film is a scratched up, worn out and badly warped, multi-generation dupe suffering from vinegar syndrome with lots of breaks, splices and blown sprockets. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveĬhristmas Eve's is a NSFW 16mm 'arts student' vintage nudie cutie film about 4 pretty gals waking up on Christmas morning and unwrapping their gifts.
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