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Well it all depended on the theatre. Some theatres did have constant height and pulled back masking on the left and right for scope. Other theatres were limited in width and had to drop masking on the top for scope, making a wider picture but an overall loss of area. The Colseium Theatre in...

Sounds as if the first print you saw was a Tech IB release (which would have been common) and the second print a faded Eastman Positive. In any event, the original was three strip Technicolor so that neg should be fine. John

Well Sony has a HD Transfer, it's running on HDnet Movies Friday, February 16 at 4:45 PM ET/1:45 PM PT. Listing states "not available on DVD" John

Disney is replacing the "More Silly Symphonies" Volume 2 of Walt Disney Treasures (as reported on the Digital Bits and verified with the Disney website). See http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/disneytreasures/ for details (roll over Silly Symphonies for phone number and details). Also when I...

Why would a repriting be required? Well the colors in film and the Technicolor Seps from the 50s are different than the color spectrum for television. You might get close (and they might choose to do it that way) by pulling the channels and reassigning them, but there is such a thing as...

When I called, they said they knew of the problem and would send a return envelope out but to wait until Disney contacted me before returning the disc. This tech was not as firm that it was in the works to be redone. I'm beginning to think that the problem may have happened at the film stage...

Well, let's hope someone at Disney sees this and issues a statement and that they WILL issue corrected discs. After all, Warner Bros. can do it, why not Disney? John

Yup, got my replacements today as well. Sent in the old discs on Monday. Very fast service, much improved over "Kiss Me Kate" and Tom & Jerry Spotlight exchanges. John

I bought a box set (R1) a couple of years ago which was put out by Anchor Bay which included: Carry on Cleo/Carry on Jack Carry on Cowboy/Carry on Screaming Carry on Regardless/Carry on Cruising Carry on Nurse/Carry on Sergeant Carry on Spring/Carry on Cabby Carry on Teacher/Carry on...

My replacement discs arrived today! They sent the discs out first with a pre-stamped return envelope to return the old discs. Oh me of so little faith, Warners has come thru!! John

I second that. It would be helpful if Mr. Epstein & Co. could get an update (and why did the top of forum announcement disappear?). John

I called the day the message about the exchange went up. I called back last week and asked if I was missed. Nope, she said, "we haven't sent any of the envelopes out yet." No date, so speculation, just not yet. Won't say they were waiting for discs or anything else. I suspect they're...

I think you mean MGM not Fox (a roar not a fanfare). BTW, the extras on the SciFi Boys has an interview with the guy who restored Robby for the Museum and now makes copies in various price ranges. He says he also got a change to cast parts from a mold he made from the original. John

It probably isn't public domain, rather it's probably an orphan. The production company made three films listed in imdb in 1971-72. It probably went "out of business" and the rights to the films is in receivership. Since negatives carry tremendous entanglements as to re-run, residual, music...

The various shorts (Pete Smith, TravelTalks,Vitaphone PepperPots, etc) do show up as extras on some Warners Discs. I recall a question in one of the WB chats and they said there were no plans to issue any compliation discs. There are hundreds if not thousands of titles produced by MGM and...

>>From the opening credits I could see the problem. I’m sorry that I don’t know the correct terminology for this effect nor what causes it (anyone can chime in here with the answer) but the problem is on the film itself and not a problem with the DVD. The effect I see is a ghost that appears in...

Robert, PAL Speed-UP is the result of taking motion picture film shot at 24 frames per second and transfering it to video (in the PAL system) at 25 frames per second. This results in a 4 per cent speed up in both picture and sound. Now days most sound is pitch corrected but the action is...

Unfortunately, this is a question that can not be answered in general. Every title has it's own costs and budget just like every movie has it's own budget. A telecine suite is charged by the hour, how long you'll be in there depends on your title, producer, director, dp and label. It's not...

But every Technicolor IB print from a three strip negative had "optical" printed matrix stock since every negative had to be corrected for the camera prism and the fact one record had to be fliped since it was shot emulsion to emulsion. Also Techicolor did full scene dupes so any reel that...

This is really troublesome. I had a problem with a little 27 inch Syntax set I bought at Fry's. Called the service line, they sent me the parts and a service man showed up to install them. All their service was subcontracted to a firm that does tv and computer repair. When I talked to the...

Right now this is included by contract and licensing. The DVD standards included Warner Bros. which hold several patents and the group didn't want to create the same problems they felt they had with Beta/VHS. So they were involved in the creation of the format and the manufacturers went along...

The problem is, you're already in court! That means you've already had to spend a small fortune just to get that far. I think this is one reason why the court cases on fair use are so few and far between, that's just the way the MPAA wants it. They dread any binding legal precedent that...

They were worried enough about it to have it sanctioned in the 1934 Copyright bill. You might not remember it, but there were home acetate recorders, pre-groved home alumnium discs, and wire recorders back in the 1930s and 1940s. When television sets were installed in bars, it was in the best...

Well actually it's a plea after you've admitted to breaking the copyright act. Time shifting is a concept and practice that dates to the 1930s. Included in the Copyright Act of 1934 as etherial recordings, it was necessary for radio networks (CBS, RED & BLUE) to be able to supply programs to...

If you lost "red" and then the picture became dimmer, chances are you need three tubes. Guess about $700 each plus other parts at about $500 (flyback or something else along those lines). Makes parts about $2600. Labor will probably come in high due to major convergence at $500 plus you'll lose...

The JVC 1080p machines now have a iris for the various modes which will cut brightness. The Sony version of lcos also has an iris. This technique addresses the high brightness complaint, but the ultimate test of any display is when it's in your room with your input signals--at that point all...

Why do you think that TCF which owned Deluxe would send this off to Technicolor? BTW there were never any large format dye transfer prints (i.e. 70mm) only 35mm. It's possible that Technicolor London or Rome may have made prints for Europe, but as far as I can tell, all the US prints were...

The HP DLP set is supposed to accept 1080p over HDMI and it's rumored that the new JVC Dila 1080p sets MIGHT accept 1080p (there just are too few to test and there is a question about what you use to test). Right now the only source seems to be computer output and the question is whether a...

The copyright must appear on the work itself (the new law does not require a notice but this was made under the old notice requirement). A notice on the box or package would refer to the that "work" and not the contents. A copyright also has underlying rights (book, music, etc) and those can...

You can have film as a source on cable tv channels (like TCM). In the golden oldie past, film was tranmitted from film chains and the results (compared to today) were often blurred). Film runs at 24 fps (nominally, it's actually 23.97 in ntsc land) and inorder to make it fit in the video...