Recent content by JWPlatt

Bill Hunt and Robert Harris?

I would not have expected a studio to go through the expense of preservation without planning for a release. Long term it should be 1:1. But beyond that, if it's not fast enough, the FILO preservation queue eventually results in lost assets.

The slower the rate of migration, the longer the wait, the more likely the oldest films will decay beyond viability to the point that decay happens faster than release.

It wasn't your fault. If you like 3D, that's great. A suggestion never made is one never fulfilled. I take full responsibility for picking up the 3D issue. Thank you for the opportunity. ;)

The local Regal Cinema here is $9.50 for children at all times. There is NO matinee pricing for children - go figure. At Regal, you are a child only through 11 years. My cutoff was at 14 years back then. The matinee prices apply to adults only at a $1.50 discount from a regular $12 price...

It's the high cost of tickets that keep me, and my family, out of the theater. I do go to my biggest fan interests: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Star Trek movies. I'll also see Star Wars and Avatar when the next episodes are released. But that is literally my entire list. So I...

How is a film shot when it is intended for a conversion? Is the 3D processing strictly interpolation? Or do you need to supply digital 3D set models, photos or camera pans to supplement the 2D? Do you need to supply those from empty sets from the exact position(s) of the camera(s) and so forth?

I have the Sergio Leone Anthology (DVD - 2007). You folks seems displeased with the Trilogy release. Do you speak of the 2010 trilogy release? From the looks of it on Amazon with the same cover, did they just drop DYS? I was okay with the dubs and added scenes because I'm more of a...

To clarify for Moe Dickstein, the colorization I referred to was of the Ted Turner fake variety - not the actual advancement of color film.ahollis, the film and theater companies hear people like me, but it's like Microsoft and Windows 8. We'll probably never know whether they are in denial or...

If those films, along with Avatar, are not forgotten by history, 3D will remain an asterisk. 3D has been "just beginning" since, as the Wiki points out, "in some form since 1915, but had been largely relegated to a niche." It was prominent in the 50s, resurfaced again in the 80s (Jaws 3D in...

I'm a little surprised by there being as much positive response to this as there is from fans. I'm an archivist at heart and so I would never want to lose any sort of creative expression ever produced. The Black Hole should be preserved, of course, in perpetuity just like anything else. But...

3D is a gimic that will die yet another painful death - like colorization. Similar to the Vulcan Pon farr, it seems to be a necessary experiment in futility every ten to twenty years - the latest and greatest version of 3D ever! I say "painful" because the industry is pushing it on us for all...

My teen children and an adult child and I are watching the extended edition at about an hour a night. They've watched the Laserdisc many, many times over. They still laugh. The new scenes are fun. Thanks for your work on the new edition. I am shocked that stock from the Laserdisc edition...

I lost interest after step 1. I have every Star Trek series, every movie - in multiple incarnations - in my collection. Star Trek Into Darkness is the first Star Trek title I have not purchased. And I won't purchase it until all the extras, especially the commentary, are in one disk case so...

Really? I didn't have my sarcasm filter on because I wouldn't have expected that from Mr. Harris. I don't know what to think if this isn't being taken seriously except to wonder whether he thinks my concerns are from an ignorant fool. I took the issue of the failure of the original...