haineshisway
Senior HTF Member
I did indeed work with Petula - one of the happiest recordings I ever did. What a wonderful woman she was and is. We had an absolute blast.
Originally Posted by Jefferson /t/315747/a-few-words-about-west-side-story-in-blu-ray/60#post_3864791
It has been many moons since I've posted here, but this warrants it.
Jefferson said:(My parents, back in the day, never recorded any Main Title sequences when they taped a movie, either...didn't consider that "important" ....yeesh, don't get me started).
I guess maybe I explained elsewhere - I thought I'd done so in one of these WSS threads. When the color dissolves to orange we hear the Mambo section of Dance at the Gym. That plays for a while, then when the music changes and the color should go to blue there is a complete fade to black and a second or two later a fade UP to the blue and THEN the camera pulls back to reveal the title.Michael1 said:Excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand how the dissolve at the beginning could possibly have been turned into a fade-out/fade-in. In the original version, there is a pullback on the abstract vertical-lines image, then there is a sort of snapshot-with-flash effect as the title of the movie appears before the abstract image, and then that dissolves directly into the Manhattan skyline. Can someone explain exactly where the fade-out/fade-in occurs in the Blu-Ray?
I just got through saying that I hope WSS is the last of MGM's library I wish to have in blu, then I read Greg P's post and now this. I'd kill to see this best picture Oscar winner properly done in blu. The first DVD looked like a fifth generation tape projected onto the Cinerama Dome screen in Hollywood (or someone's bathroom) with all the lights on! So dark one could hardly make out the faces, it still ranks as the worst transfer I've ever seen.Robert Harris said:While several reels of Tom Jones original neg had gone missing, they have no rejoined their brethren.
RAH
Very simple. What you see on screen is not what the original negative looks like.Originally Posted by Michael1 /t/315747/a-few-words-about-west-side-story-in-blu-ray/60#post_3864861
Excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand how the dissolve at the beginning could possibly have been turned into a fade-out/fade-in. In the original version, there is a pullback on the abstract vertical-lines image, then there is a sort of snapshot-with-flash effect as the title of the movie appears before the abstract image, and then that dissolves directly into the Manhattan skyline. Can someone explain exactly where the fade-out/fade-in occurs in the Blu-Ray?
Surely you mean, "Who is the dupe?"Panavision70 said:I have one question. What is a dupe?
thank you.
Lest we forget THE FRENCH CONNECTION.Originally Posted by Robert Harris /t/315747/a-few-words-about-west-side-story-in-blu-ray#post_3864335
I believe I've stated this before. The point of viewing something on Blu-ray is to enable the home theater fan to see something as closely to the way it looked in theatres as possible.
RAH
I have just cancelled mine too. I used the "reason why" box at Amazon to say precisely why!mark brown said:Thanks for the heads up. Just canceled my November order! mdb
ps: Please MGM sell your library to someone who cares!