Title: Barber of Seville: Film transfer...a shaml
Product review: I saw this film in 1947 when it was shown in NYC movie theatres and was thrilled to see it available on video from Bel Canto Society. The performance was superb, the transfer deplorable, and its sale almost unconscionable. The film has been chopped up, the sound is deplorable (I have a cassette made from a RAI-Italy radio broadcast live from the Rome Opera House--almost the same cast--by a then-20+ year old student with minimal resources and an inexpensive RTR tape recorder and the sound, transferred first to cassette and then to CD, is 10 times better than Bel Canto's. This is not unique in Bel Canto's catalog. A tape of Land of Smiles with Tauber was produced on a low-quality home camcorder with date and time indicators still on!!My advice is to avoid Bel Canto's products however tempting and delicious the offerings sound. I have ORIGINAL Caruso 78rpm disks that sound better.
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