The recent DVDs from PAL land of Fulci's City Of The Living Dead certainly look bright and clear, and some of the best presentations of the film on Home video. But they suffer from aggressive Digital video noise reduction, which gives certain scenes from the film something akin to 'the shakes' - possibly as the source material was 16mm and the blow-up to a 35mm internegative wobbled in the gate as the registration is off.

Will anyone be able to find/restore the original camera negative, or at least fix the registration probelms of what may be the only remaining vault elements so that it doesn't shake so much before this film hits Hi Def?

I didn't notice much in the way of gate weave, seeing this in 35mm about a year or so ago. I'm also not convinced it's a 16mm blow-up. It would answer some questions, but there could be other reasons for the grain, and the choice to shoot 1.85.

Do recall that while the CITY is thematically connected with Fulci's other gothic/zombie films of the early eighties, it was not a Fabrizio De Angelis production like the others (it was a Dania Film production post-seventies when they were concentrating far more on low budget television projects - the effects were also not by Giannetto de Rossi but Franco Ruffini who managed a nice maggot under the eyelid effect in the Dania TV production SCORPION WITH TWO TAILS). Perhaps they had to work with 16mm on location and then matched it in the studio or the other way around.