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That line I was referring to earlier that used the live dialogue in the 1989 theatrical sound mix, the "India Wilkes, what a lovely dress line," I just discovered is in the "Making of" documentary on the Blu-Ray (and previous DVD), at about the 1:31:17 mark. Very different reading from the...

Yes, Ned Price says that in the interview I linked to above -- that they "fixed" some of the matte work, not only the jumps, but adjusting the color/brighness to make them more seamless.

Well, as I mentioned, "I'll sell you south" is ONLY in the 1989 remaster -- it wasn't in the 1985 version I was referring to, either -- so I don't know that it was in the original version of the film. However, the extra "like me" in "You don't, you really don't like me" IS in the original...

I just purchased the original 1985 laserdisc of "Gone With the Wind" on Ebay. I got rid of mine years and years ago, probably when the 50th Annivesary edition came out. Some observations: The second "I'll sell you south" line is NOT in the original 1985 video edition. It is apparently...

Eric is correct. I did a Google search and came up with this Ned Price interview from a couple months ago in Motion Picture Editors Guild online. In it (link below), Mr. Price says: "For the widescreen release [here the article incorrectly inserts in brackets a reference to the 1967 70mm...

Do you know that for sure? Actually, what I wish they would have done is just left the damn black bar at the bottom. But, yes, I'll admit that in this latest incarnation there really is not a huge amount of information lost. Another thing they could have done is see if they could locate the...

I can see the whole image, Sean... I'm already viewing it unscaled. I'm talking about information that is missing on the sides of the picture. Since it's a 1.33 picture, there are black bars on the sides anyway... viewing it at "100% picture" wouldn't make a difference.

I checked out Ronald Haver's big picture book, "David O. Selznick's 'Gone With the Wind'," from the library today. There are a few frame stills in the book showing some of the "black bar on the bottom" shots. The ones they show are the first shot of the carriages going into Twelve Oaks (which...

Here's a fascinating vintage news segment about the first home video release of "Gone With the Wind" from 1985. It also confirms my recollection (posted back in 2004!) that the source for that original video release was a previously undiscovered negative that had never been used for printing...

So what is the verdict about cropped shots being restored for this release? Doing an A/B comparision, I see there is a significant amount of picture information on the left side of the screen in the train station shot, plus a bit on the right (at 1:16:55) that is not present in either of the...

I guess they don't say "answer print." In looking at the "Restoring a Legend" featurette from the 2004 DVD, Ned Price says, "We were fortunate enough to get a 1939 color reference print that was used at Technicolor at the time of manufacture. It was a real boon to us because it gave us a...

You're probably right, Robert. But the studio did claim in 2004 that they had a complete 1939 print, info I gleaned from your own post at the time:

True... but it does seem to fit in with the other Internet info that an answer print was used for the 2004 restoration.

I LOVED the 1989 theatrical sound mix, if that's what you're referring to. Mainly because there were some live dialogue stems in there that are dubbed over in the "proper" version. For example, "India Wilkes, what a lovely dress. Just can't take my eyes off it." It's obviously overdubbed in...

Another (new) confirmation that this was color timed to a 1939 answer print: www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-wind17-2009nov17,0,2157080.story

Hmm, it's all over the Internet that the 2004 restoration was color timed to Selznick's answer print. The story goes that it was found five weeks into the video restoration, so they started all over from scratch.