It's definitely out of sync. The audio comes too early. This is also consistent with how this transfer is on streaming and MeTV. I have to say I concur with this review and that the transfers are overwhelmingly excellent (save The Wacky Worm, which looks genuinely awful).
I can't answer for sure about the out-of-focus ten seconds on Beanstalk Bunny. It could be actual element damage, it could be how the film was shot. I'm leaning towards the latter as I just pulled my old IB Tech and that shift is there, albeit not as pronounced as a scan off of a SEN. The detail...
Also, how come they stuck an ancient analog transfer of the classic cartoon HYDE AND HARE in as an extra, even though a fully restored, HD master has existed for 18 years and is even on HBO Max? Is it because they’re geniuses?
There were no such credits in the scan provided by Paramount for Somewhere in Dreamland. The only information provided is that it was a dupe negative created by UCLA in 1992 from a 35mm nitrate print. If there is a complete set of credits, they'd need to be provided to these folks to add. (To...
We watched the DVD this week and found the whole thing to look (and sound) off. And yet even without getting into color accuracy, the Blu-Ray is just so unreasonably dark, like so many things to come out of the responsible lab. Both can suck but one sucks a lot less, and this will just have to...
It's more likely bad restoration/remastering from Disney (sorry to bring that hornets' nest here but it's relevant) than the AR. We've run the xerox-era features matted on 35mm and they look just fine. (I'm not discussing which AR is correct, but the AR should not affect the xerox line work...
Seems several people here saw the clonestamping/bleeding immediately without enlarging it 400%. :emoji_shrug:
It still hasn't been addressed why they've been doing this. And since the same Leo card exists untouched on other cartoons, it's obviously not because of being unable to locate useable...
There is clearly photoshop bleeding and clone stamping in that title card, and in motion, they are clearly digital fades and crossfades. If you can't see it, I can't help you.
It's WB's new M.O. that has not been substantively addressed in any manner. Basically they've clonestamped/bleeded the image to make it "widescreen/tablet/iphone safe", and redid the fades and dissolves.
What it's supposed to look like (from one cartoon on this disc):
What it looks like after...
It seems to be the norm, as at least 8 cartoons on the Bugs Bunny set have them too, and the dozens of newly restored cartoons on HBO Max have ones that are even more appalling than what's made it to disc so far (but otherwise repeatedly look quite stunning). I don't know who made this order to...
It falls in the half of the cartoons that are pretty much perfectly presented, and I guarantee you'll want this for just those.
The other site has its review up that corroborates my opinion: "Recommended, but with reservations."
For the record, as the one who called attention to the DNR issue, I still think Avery Vol. 2 is worth buying, because as Paul Penna said, it's way below other instances of the process. It seems to be mostly on the earlier cartoons, and it certainly hurt my enjoyment of a few like LITTLE RURAL...
Considering WAC's track record on BD, this is merely disappointing but mostly passable. Disney, on the other hand, should be put on trial for what they've done.
I'm sure most people are going to be happy with it. Me, I'm happy just for Magical Maestro and Drag-a-Long Droopy looking beautiful alone, but once you see the DNR erasure, you're not going to stop seeing it, and it's especially disheartening for a director like Avery who gave himself a nervous...
Aside from the Photoshopped titles, Magical Maestro, one of the single greatest cartoons ever made, looks amazing and is certainly to the standard of the first volume, so it's at least worth buying for that. The Avery cartoons have certainly seen worse DNR effects, as with the French monstrosity...
I don't think a replacement is coming. The damage control reply from the producers is that because of the pandemic, the usual WAC team responsible for Avery 1 and Famous Popeye was laid off, so versions previously done by HBO Max and elsewhere (which we were told was something they wouldn't do...
Cracked open this tonight. Unfortunately, a major step down from the first volume. A few opening titles have been recreated in Photoshop (as has become the new norm at WB with the cartoons; a few are like this on the new Bugs Bunny set), while most of the cartoons have been rendered with the...
Actually, ClassicFlix will still release these regardless. If the crowdfunding is successful, CF will be able to put the first shorts out faster and in less volumes. So what you're doing with your contribution is help expedite the work and release.
I guess y’all missed the endless posts that specifically mention about 75 percent of this thing will be a combination of new to HD or home video content. But yeah, lame move on WB’s part to NOT issue Lumber-Jack Rabbit in 3-D.