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"Funny Face" -- Audrey running down the stairs at the museum, "Take the picture, take the picture!" And here are a couple of HTF review threads: 50th Anniversary Edition Centennial Collection

Per this story in Variety, next year's Berlin Film Festival will have a sidebar featuring screenings of 22 films in 70mm, including "War and Peace", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Ben Hur", and "Celopatra". Berlin pays homage to 70 mm films - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

It has been the case in the past (even when a single company owns both a movie and its distribution rights) that new materials would not be made because the Domestic and International groups couldn't agree on how to split the costs; or because the TV and homevideo groups couldn't agree. I've...

50 years ago, my Dad was working at Kodak, in the Color Technology group. When he and Mom would go to the movies, Dad would often point out to Mom the "cyan shadows" or "magenta highlights" that he found so annoying -- there was no way he could not see them. (They've been happily married now for...

Does this doc compliment, rather than repeat, the extras on the individual discs? What sticks with me from the doc on the "Shall We Dance" disc, Feinstein talks about George noodling around at the piano, and Ira saying, "hey George, add one more note and I can use 'The way you wear your hat',"...

Paul Sweeting's column in Video Business addresses the lack of due process for consumers whose hardware may be hobbled if the product is not used in the way required by the manufacturer. Key quote: When you “buy” a digital device these days, you don’t so much take ownership of it in the...

Maybe..... Note that the REVISED version of "Star Wars" shows a Lucasfilm copyright, but we've not yet seen the copyright notice on the ORIGINAL version. (All assignments of copyright are registered with the registrar of copyrights in DC, so anyone with the time or some cash could investigate...

A good source of data and info can be found in the weekly "Video Business". While the entire site will be useful, check out these two areas in particular: Columns by Paul Sweeting, one of the few writers in the trades who actually appears to understand both the technology and the market...

Following is a posting from an e-mail list about the screening and restoration:

Any HTF members in LA able to attend and report back to us? The restored "South Pacific" will screen at The Entertainment Technology Center at USC's Digital Cinema Laboratory on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 7:00 PM at the Lab's historic Pacific Theater location: 6433 Hollywood Blvd...

Ed Felten at his "Freedom to Tinker" site addresses the draft analog-hole bill. I'll quote his initial post below, but there's ongoing discussion of interest there as well. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=958

So far, I've "upgraded" from laserdiscs to DVDs only on those films that have undergone new restoration work and/or new transfers. I had assumed that a DVD from the same master would look very much like the laserdisc, and it would not be worth the double-dip. It's interesting to see there's...

Exactly (sorry if I wasn't clear earlier). I have all the Kino laserdiscs, and I'm wondering whether the DVDs were from new transfers, better elements, etc.

Anyone have thoughts regarding the Buster Keaton laserdiscs vs DVDs? (Thanks for the opinions so far on the Chaplin titles.)

Quite right. I know there are fewer and fewer laserdisc owners, but I'm hoping someone has actually seen these in both formats.

I have complete sets of the Kino Keaton and CBS/Fox Chaplin laserdiscs. The Pioneer laser-player is working fine, so there's no need to buy now. But... How do the current Chaplin and Keaton DVDs compare to the lasderdiscs? Significant difference? Worth the double-dip? Or are the...

In this case, "My Fair Lady" is actually owned by CBS. Not only the movie, though -- CBS actually owns a portion of the underlying musical play. Every time a high school or community theatre group presents "My Fair Lady", some portion of the proceeds/royalties end up back at CBS. (The movie was...

The CBS/Fox Video joint-venture had licensed the video distribution rights to "Oklahoma!" and "South Pacific" (I don't recall whether those rights originated via CBS, or whether the venture made the acquisition). When the venture was finally dissolved, the video distribution rights to these two...

Here's an article with some background on UltraResloution, from the TimeWarner employee magazine "Keywords", Nov/Dec 2004 issue: AOL SISTERS, WARNER BROS. BRING NEW LIFE TO OLD FILMS They finish each other’s sentencesand read each other’s minds. They both like pumpkin tortellini and...

Yes, Penelope and Parker were the best performances in the movie. If the rest of cast had that tone, and the story had not focused on "the next generation", the film could have been quite fun. Did anyone else notice the very funny closeup of marionette strings?

I can't answer specifically about the film in question, but keep in mind that there are (at least) two major steps to viable separations: (1) create the three separations; and (2) test them by creating a usable element from them. There are many films on which money was spent to create...

The articles I saw this morning mentioned "40% of all COLOR movies". (And, of course, any of these percentages refer strictly to US films.) MGM owns just a few dozen films that predate 1950.

CBS/Fox was a joint venture, created back in the days before Fox owned a network; and when CBS still owned CBS [Sony] records and one-third of TriStar Pictures. Over time, CBS sold off much of its content, and the bulk of the CBS/Fox product became primarily Fox. Fox then bought out CBS's share...

This is indeed a huge issue, particularly with catalog titles. I've worked at several studios and have seen this first-hand. With bonuses based on the performance of one's own division, there are often scrambles to get some other division to pay the costs. That said, I'd be willing to bet...

Why wouldn't they also include "That's Dancing", from the mid 1980s? As I recall (20 years on, the memory gets fuzzy), there are many clips and sequences not included in any of the three "That's Entertainment" films.

"Sidewalk Stories", 1989 by Charles Lane. Very heavily influenced by Chaplin -- a homeless street artist helps a child find his lost family. There may have been a couple of lines of dialog (haven't seen it since '89). However, it doesn't appear to be on DVD.

This film was in the catalog of Cinema Center Films, the theatrical arm of CBS back in the 1970s. CBS still owned rights to the library in the 1990s. I assume rights passed to Viacom/Paramount with its purchase of CBS.

Superimposed at the bottom of the frame in the last seconds of "Bacall to Arms" on the "To Have and Have Not" DVD is this notice: I've seen similar notices flash onscreen on the Cartoon Network. (I've barely dipped into the "Golden Collection" so don't know about those.) From that...

I'd buy Frank's Place in a heartbeat -- my old VHS tapes are wearing out. Tim Ried and Hugh Wilson created a brilliant ensemble "dramedy" -- the critics didn't know what to call a half-hour show without a laughtrack which was often, but not always, comic. This ranks right up there with the "Dick...