Yes 🍾

Some parts are irreparably damaged. Sorry, no original 35mm footage here. The originals were destroyed or "lost" during the 1920's, while the distribution copies were shelved in 1922 by the ban on Arbuckle films, introduced by William H. Hays administration of the MPPDA. Later, those distribution copies were also "lost" by improper storage practices. What survived of "Moonshine" were copies in 16mm and 8mm format. The contrast change is not the real problem in this upload, there is a severe optical aberration in some frames. It comes from the resized lower quality 8mm frames, used to replace 16mm damaged footage. It's visually perceived as a blurriness and higher luminosity. You can tell the film original frame size/format from analyzing the grain of video captured frames. The 8mm frame was amplified using a rudimentary film copy device, generating a 16mm frame - but distorting the resulting image, with the grains looking bloated. A professional equipment is capable of correcting optical aberrations.

@@silverscreenfilmotheque9071 😊 👍 Thanx so much for the technical explanation, but I'm just thrilled to be able to see this little treasure at all!

I’m only guessing, but this may have been working from two separate prints…one of better quality but missing sections, and another more complete but poor quality. Seemed to go back-and-forth between different versions like it was perhaps spliced together.

He already explained that this is made up of 16mm and 8mm prints. And, for all I know, 9.5mm. Quality will vary badly, but this is the best we're going to get unless a 35mm print shows up. Which is highly unlikely, but not impossible.