I'm very aware of this release and am looking forward to it. Unfortunately because the nitrate for HANDS UP! wasn't at LoC, it wasn't included in Ben's release.
Bob, I'm really looking forward to your releases! A suggestion for a possible title would be the great Raymond Griffith comedy HANDS UP! MoMA has beautiful 35mm material on it. All the best.
Such a great Pre-Code treasure and the picture quality is phenomenal. If you're a fan of such films, show some support to Kino for taking a chance on titles like this and buy a copy at their site. It's only $16 bucks and change. I spent over $300 for this on 16mm film years ago and it didn't...
Will buy GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN GIRL day one and not wait for a future sale. We must show support for titles like this and buy them right out of the gate.
Many thanks Kino for releasing this!
I hope it will be a more straight forward orchestral score than usual from the Alloy folks as this film would suffer with an experimental, bombastic one.
Would love the William Perry or Carl Davis scores as an option as they are especially good.
In the mid to late 2000's, Schawn Belston over at Fox supervised the color grading of THE KING AND I when new photochemical preservation work was being done. A new HD master was created at the time and that version of the film is currently what's available via streaming on sites like Vudu...
Robert, I remember being at an Academy event years ago and they were saying how the color on the OCN had shifted and they had to call in the YCM's to assist with their restoration at the time.
I was surprised too. I can't imagine what may have happened that a 1967 Eastman negative was having...
There was apparently some issues with color fade in the OCN, if memory serves, which is why the Academy of Motion Pictures did a photochemical restoration a decade or so ago.
But the negative was never "lost."
The commentary track on the disc of A MAN ALONE, done by Toby Roan, has a factual error that has carried over to the review here.
This and other Trucolor films from around 1954 (including the other Ray Milland epic released recently by Kino, LISBON) were NOT shot in Trucolor but on Eastmancolor...
For much of the time the Warner Blu-ray does replicate the look of the 16mm British IB Technicolor print that I once had. The one scene where it falls apart a bit is the sequence where Lucy meets the child in the forest. That's a bit too dark, a bit too blue and doesn't have a lot of detail...