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I picked up the Jonny Quest set the other day and I agree wholeheartedly with the general assessment here. These episodes look fantastic!
After reading Jeff's post, I have to admit that I am now somewhat disappointed in this "archival" set. Just out of curiosity, is there a possible legal route for these artisans to take with regards to the omission of their creative credits? I assume most of this was done as 'work for hire' at the time, but perhaps someone from the Doug Wildey estate (since he is widely regarded as the key creator of the series) can apply some legal pressure on Warner Home Video to get these properly restored and help initiate an exchange program.
We will probably never know for certain how this end credit snafu came about, but I have a theory.
I am guessing that "Double Danger" (which has correct end credits) was either worked on by a different production team (or at the very least, at a different point in time.) Since Double Danger is the "pop-up video" episode in the supplements, additional posting was required to create it. Maybe the supplemental section was handled by a different team and they received a copy of that episode before the others so they would have the pop-up episode completed on schedule. When the rest of the episodes were transferred, someone may have decided to just transfer one show open (which doesn't change, BTW) and one show close and then edit those on to all of the other episodes. Since Double Danger was already completely transferred, there would be no point in revisiting that episode. I guess in theory this may have saved some small amount of film-to-digital transfer time, but at what cost?
The only other quibble I have with this set is the same issue I have with a lot of DVD mono soundtracks. I wish Warner had given us a two-track mono mix instead of center channel only. Just a personal preference here...
Gary
After reading Jeff's post, I have to admit that I am now somewhat disappointed in this "archival" set. Just out of curiosity, is there a possible legal route for these artisans to take with regards to the omission of their creative credits? I assume most of this was done as 'work for hire' at the time, but perhaps someone from the Doug Wildey estate (since he is widely regarded as the key creator of the series) can apply some legal pressure on Warner Home Video to get these properly restored and help initiate an exchange program.
We will probably never know for certain how this end credit snafu came about, but I have a theory.
I am guessing that "Double Danger" (which has correct end credits) was either worked on by a different production team (or at the very least, at a different point in time.) Since Double Danger is the "pop-up video" episode in the supplements, additional posting was required to create it. Maybe the supplemental section was handled by a different team and they received a copy of that episode before the others so they would have the pop-up episode completed on schedule. When the rest of the episodes were transferred, someone may have decided to just transfer one show open (which doesn't change, BTW) and one show close and then edit those on to all of the other episodes. Since Double Danger was already completely transferred, there would be no point in revisiting that episode. I guess in theory this may have saved some small amount of film-to-digital transfer time, but at what cost?
The only other quibble I have with this set is the same issue I have with a lot of DVD mono soundtracks. I wish Warner had given us a two-track mono mix instead of center channel only. Just a personal preference here...
Gary