My vote is for Garbo's final Silent The Kiss (1929 MGM) with its amazing Art Deco interiors, and where she's at the height of her considerable powers before being forced to master English.
Does anyone know if this is the same transfer of Cobra Woman that was used in the German Blu-ray? Which I own, and which looks fine.
Note also that there is a UK Blu of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944 Universal) which I purchased several years ago, and think looks fantastic.
As usual, I'm...
:emoji_musical_score:"He's been looking high, and he's been looking low, looking for his Shanghai Lil":emoji_musical_score:
Warner Archive has posted a clip of most of the number on YouTube in - wait for it! - full 1080 - and it looks amazing. The close-ups of Keeler are diffused.
Includes...
I've always wondered what the fate was of MGM's 3-strip Technicolor OCNs; no idea if they were more likely to take any care of them. Presumably its all over the place <_<
Day in 3-strip Technicolor - but only "Calamity Jane" is available on Blu :angry:
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Tea for Two (1950)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
April in Paris (1952)
By the Light of the Silvery...
The screen-caps posted on bluray.com look just amazing considering this process, although not surprisingly you can see the registration struggling a bit in some shots. Its really startling sometimes to see what's always been there slumbering on the OCN (or close to), waiting to be revealed...
...and speaking of Hermes Pan, high on my Technicolor Blu-restoration wish-list is Betty Grable's Pin Up Girl (1944 Fox) where he really cuts loose in the "Once Too Often" number.
This is going to be fun! I've seen 35mm prints of all of these many times decades ago, and own the recent Euro-Blu of Blonde Venus which is my personal fave. People who have never seen The Devil is a Woman (Dietrich's favorite) are going to be REALLY surprised -- its delirious stylized look was...
Does anyone know if Disney goes back to digital scans of the original SE camera negatives for these titles (thus making them equivalent to a 3-strip Technicolor OCN restoration)?
Speaking of which - in 1955 when Disney made the major decision to switch Lady and the Tramp to a CinemaScope release, did they also switch to using an anamorphic lens in the multi-plane camera? Or did they trim the standard full-frame version down to a wide-screen ratio? My understanding is...
My Technicolor wish-list:
Becky Sharp (1935)
Down Argentine Way (1940 Fox) *on Fox iTunes*
That Night in Rio (1941 Fox)
Week-End in Havana (1941 Fox)
Song of the Islands (1942 Fox)
Lassie Come Home (1943 MGM)
Bathing Beauty (1944 MGM)
Cobra Woman (1944 Universal)...
And oh for a Blu of the YCM/Gitt restoration, which I had the incredible good luck to see screened years ago; it was like seeing something from an Egyptian tomb come to life.
Still panting for a Blu of A Summer Place (1959 Warner). Love Constance Ford's leave-no-scenery-unchewed turn as the evil step-mother. "Are you bad Johnny? Have you been bad with girls?"
Amen! I've been panting for these 2 quality productions on Blu for years; since they are both from MGM, there might be a chance of a decent extant source for scanning and restoration.
Wow this is great - has long been on my Blu wish-list. A fun, popular, and influential film in its time; although I think that the section with Barbara Nichols kind of drags - "What lungs!". A favorite snarky hipster review of a revival theater showing described it as "contains all the...
And note that Criterion's on-line "Synopsis" of their Spartacus DVD states: "lush Technicolor cinematography"
https://www.criterion.com/films/449-spartacus
When I e-mailed their contact to gently point out the error, his response was basically that since the release prints were by Technicolor...