Early morning post; I meant to say "junked" – now corrected. The point remains, despite repeated assertions, the score was recorded in three-channel stereo, as has been proven earlier in this thread and the one I linked to in my last comment. But, as was commonplace back then, those recordings...
Strange to see the "stereo" question being repeatedly rehashed, as it was the last time the film was discussed here and so often before. The original score recordings were in three-track stereo but junked after being mixed to mono. The film itself never had a stereo soundtrack; any claims to the...
The widescreen HD remasters of Highway to Heaven have so far been released in complete US and German BD and DVD sets. Here are the relevant discussions on HTF and BD.com.
Tact precluded me from going there but you're dead right. If anyone from the aforesaid companies wants to drop me a line, we can fix this!
But returning to the original point of the thread, what we have is all we're getting for now, so buy away.
Apart from Jamaica Inn, ownership of all the British Hitchcocks is split evenly between ITV Global and StudioCanal with 12 apiece. Their licensees in the US are Criterion and Kino Lorber respectively. It's churlish to criticise the generally excellent HD masters of Hitchcock's British talkies...
There's an increasing tendency for folk here and elsewhere to use the widely accepted term "lost film" (no longer extant; not known to exist) when they really mean "unavailable" or, better still, "not easily accessible to members of the public." The only reason I can think of is that consciously...
Thank you. It may initially appear to be mumbo jumbo but I've studied it for many years and understand it perfectly. But it's really not that difficult: copyright laws may seem intimidating at first but once you decipher the legalese, they're actually quite straightforward. This especially...
This thread is a very frustrating read: there's so much speculation, much of it completely misinformed. Hopefully this will end it.
I'm not going to quote individual posts but reply to various points raised since the beginning of this thread.
Once again: as of today, 1st January, essentially...
People are conflating two entirely different concepts: essentially, no post-1925, non-US works are public domain in the US – or anywhere else for that matter.
This film belongs to somebody 100%; what remains to be seen is whether they claim(ed) their copyright and intend to enforce it.
Kudos for continuing to highlight the widespread piracy of Hitchcock's fully copyrighted British films but note The Pleasure Garden is not in the public domain. When it finally becomes so, at the end of this year, note too it only applies in the US and to silent copies of the two unrestored...
I'm certain that's nothing more than an anonymous Australian pirate. It's ripped from the US Warner Archive Collection 2017 region 0 reissue DVD-R as opposed to the 2009 region 1 pressed DVD issued in the TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection.
I've encountered many very similar Oz DVDs that are...
This is a commonly reported problem. There is no fix and as the fault didn't develop until years later, no corrected discs were issued. Criterion will send free replacements on request ([email protected]) but all stocks of the original disc are gone and they only have copies of their...
This is such a shame. I love this body of films, but they should not have treated hour-long B movies to the same individual, premium-priced releases you'd accord A-list studio product. That they'd turn a profit in the current physical media market was hopelessly optimistic at best, misguided at...
Kino's 2005 DVD has a PAL-NTSC transfer, so is sped-up by 4%. Their latest DVD, issued commensurately with the BD, has a native NTSC transfer, so has the correct runtime.
You might want to pay more due diligence as to what you consider to be public domain. Straight off, I can assure you that three of the twelve films on your current schedule are actually copyrighted. They are: the 20th Century Fox Hour adaption of Miracle on 34th Street (1955), Cyrano de Bergerac...
Hi Tracy,
Welcome to the forum and congrats on your excellent taste! Until someone gets around to producing a round-up of Kay Francis titles available on official home video (I may do so one day), the best place to check availability is here. Just click on the "Releases" tab for each title...
Or they could release them as real value for money barebones twofers – or even threefers – as per Kit Parker's excellent film noir sets. But they won't. :(
1.66:1 has become a ubiquitous ratio for classic widescreen films on DCP and home video, despite originally being nowhere near as common as supposed. I thought I'd compile a list of the worst offenders, that were shot for widescreen exhibition but only released fully open matte on certain...
Not referring to anyone in particular, but...
Certain peoples' sympathies towards buying bootlegs and "grey market" (an insidious, misleading term if ever there was one) releases has long been a matter of record. As has certain peoples' complete lack of knowledge but unswerving confidence in...
Brilliant, just brilliant. Hopefully this time around, the damn dirty bootleggers* will keep their stinking paws off your transfer!
*Film Chest/Film Detective and others too numerous to mention. :angry:
Well, it's time of year and I was thinking of giving this a rewatch. I have the disc with the initial pressing fault corrected but does anyone know if Warner ever fixed the glitch in the second disc? It'd be a pain for them to remaster it a third time, but as they're usually so assiduous I find...
Bob's not kidding about that OCN. Interesting. Though the plethora of budget knock-off releases might have you believing otherwise, this film is not in the public domain. In fact, it's copyrighted until at least the end of 2054 (the 1984 death of co-writer Patrick Kirwan + 70 years). The BFI...
Hi Thomas, thanks for your replies. I know about all The Lodger's custom scores over the years (I wrote the article in the link you posted!) but the answer won't be found there. This music is a needle-drop score, which means it's just some random old piece, likely public domain, which has been...
Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Blu-ray
Though shot mostly on SD videotape, outdoor scenes shot on 16mm film have been remastered in HD, as per the Monty Python BDs. :)
I'd love to know the title of the music accompanying a version of Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger (1926). It's a well-edited needle-drop of a pre-existing recording on the "Vintage Films" sound reissue (c. 1930–1950), which now appears on many bootlegs. There are a couple of...