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I can't comment about Bride at this point, sorry.
For Prince of Foxes we started with the 1/4" tapes of flat optical transfers done in the 1980s and the score was done completely over from scratch.
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And a brilliant job it was. I can't stop listening to the damn thing.
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How were you able to salvage so much more of it this time, if the source was the same as the FSM? (i.e. Was it mainly tracks that suffered from wow that were left off the FSM at the time, but can now be included due to new digital technology to fix it?)
I’m getting hopeful this is a Rio Conchos-level night-and-day difference...
Yavar
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"Capstan from Celemony"
This, of course, was the sequel to Capstan from Castile.
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Two decades ago, cues would get summarily rejected from an assembly if they didn't sound good on the first listen. As you know, FSM often included "damaged" cues at the end, which was one solution but not ideal. Now we can micro-surgically go in and figure out what the problem is and how to get the material to the point where it's presentable. In this case it was not just wow, but also balance issues, drop-outs and optical noise, all of which can be dealt with using a variety of digital repair tools.
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Awesome.
Franz Waxman's Prince Valiant was another one from that FSM era, which did as you described and relegated the wow-affected cues to the end. I now have renewed hope that we might get an improved version of that wonderful Golden Age score, too...
Yavar
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This thing with Capstan, by way of analogy, reminds me a what happened with under-cranked silent movies from around 1915 and that era. The only way to show them was to speed them up, so there would be enough frames per second to look like continuous motion. But that meant people on film with speedy, jerky walks and so on. The speediness even became a comic trope for a while, with cane-wielding Charlie Chaplin impersonators doing "the walk" in real time.
Now they have CGI software that creates the missing frames and adds them into the old silent films, so they can be shown at natural speed and with the appearance of smooth, continuous motion rather than flickering.
The point is, we spent most of our lives thinking some audio and visual problems could never fixed, and we were wrong.
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Yeah, 100% sign me up for any more Friedhofer than can now be rescued that couldn't before. 
Yavar
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It would be interesting to know which soundtracks have already been the subject of the Capstan process. Any?
Since Herrmann's White Witch Doctor wasn't possible prior to 2010, this maybe was one of the earliest beneficiaries of newer technology?
The expansions on Kritzerland of Newman's David and Bathsheba and Friedhofer's The Rains of Ranchipur are also, I think, specimens under this category.
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Anything Chris works on, I think, and I'm sure it's been used on a lot of stuff.
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