Criterion ready to release IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (2 Viewers)

[Moe Dickstein]

Thought you are to young to remember carbon arc projection.

I am - I read about it in books!

 

[ahollis]

I am - I read about it in books!

Well it was a beautiful sight. I started in the exhibition business right at the switch over from Carbon Arc to Xenon Lamps. I still miss the sound when the lamp house is struck. Now with digital, that sound will be gone for good.

 

[RolandL]

400 or 500 seats?!



You must be a 40- or 50- something geezer. As a 60-something geezer, I remember when seating capacity was in the thousands, not the hundreds.



The Radio City Music Hall had 6,200 seats. The Fox in my hometown of St. Louis had 5,000. The Chicago (in Chicago, obviously) had 3,900.



I saw movies at the Fox where all 5,000 seats were taken!



Now, having said that, I saw MAD WORLD at the Martin Cinerama, which had 913 seats. But that was considered a rather small firstrun theater in

Being also a 60 something geezer, I remember waiting in lines that went around the block of the Radio City Music Hall to see live entertainment and a movie.

Here in Hartford, CT we had the Loew’s Poli, the Poli Palace, Strand, Allyn, E. M. Loew’s and Colonial (AKA Cinerama) and many more movie palaces. All gone.

 

[Dan_Shane]

Criterion Collection home page lists IAMMMMW as a January title!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Read more..." does not yet show any new info.

 

[Dan_Shane]

[*] SPOTLIGHT January Titles!Michael Mann’s Thief (right), Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes, Aki Kaurismäki’s La vie de bohème, new editions of Rififi andThrone of Blood, and our fortieth Eclipse set: Late Ray. What a start for 2014!
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[Ethan Riley]

Details are now up!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

[*]Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
[*]New high-definition digital transfer of a 197-minute extended version of the film, reconstructed and restored by Robert A. Harris using visual and audio material from the longer original road-show version—including some scenes that have been returned to the film here for the first time—with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
[*]New audio commentary featuring It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
[*]New documentary on the film’s visual and sound effects, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage of the crew at work and interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt
[*]Talk show from 1974 hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters
[*]Press interview from 1963 featuring Kramer and members of the film’s cast
[*]Interviews recorded for the 2000 AFI program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs, featuring comedians and actors discussing the influence of the film
[*]Two-part 1963 episode of the CBC television program Telescope that follows the film’s press junket and premiere
[*]The Last 70mm Film Festival, a program from 2012 featuring cast and crew members from Mad World at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosted by Billy Crystal
[*]Selection of humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg’s original TV and radio advertisements for the film, with a new introduction by Freberg
[*]Original and rerelease trailers, and rerelease radio spots
[*]Two Blu-rays and three DVDs, with all content available in both formats
[*]PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Lou Lumenick
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[Ronald Epstein]

I will be closing this thread shortly and redirecting.

 

[Scott D S]

[*]Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
[*]New high-definition digital transfer of a 197-minute extended version of the film, reconstructed and restored by Robert A. Harris using visual and audio material from the longer original road-show version—including some scenes that have been returned to the film here for the first time—with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
[*]New audio commentary featuring It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
[*]New documentary on the film’s visual and sound effects, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage of the crew at work and interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt
[*]Talk show from 1974 hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters
[*]Press interview from 1963 featuring Kramer and members of the film’s cast
[*]Interviews recorded for the 2000 AFI program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs, featuring comedians and actors discussing the influence of the film
[*]Two-part 1963 episode of the CBC television program Telescope that follows the film’s press junket and premiere
[*]The Last 70mm Film Festival, a program from 2012 featuring cast and crew members from Mad World at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosted by Billy Crystal
[*]Selection of humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg’s original TV and radio advertisements for the film, with a new introduction by Freberg
[*]Original and rerelease trailers, and rerelease radio spots
[*]Two Blu-rays and three DVDs, with all content available in both formats
[*]PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Lou Lumenick
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[Ethan Riley]

Thank you, Ron. I have a lot of questions!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Closing this thread. All announcement discussion to resume here.

Great news, eh?