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Eric Peterson
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Re: Isn't it about time for The African Queen?
Did anybody think to ask about "Betty Boop"
Aside from "The African Queen", these are cartoons are probably my most wanted item from Paramount's vault.
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Re: Isn't it about time for The African Queen?
I am satisfied with the news regarding "The African Queen". I never really doubted they were working on it but it is gratifying to hear concretely 1) there were obstacles, 2) what those obstacles were, and 3) these obstacles were/are being actively worked on. There's no longer a deep dark void but instead a light at the end of the tunnel.
Godspeed, Paramount. We eagerly look forward to the fruits of your labours!
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My 25 most wanted DVDs: Chilly Scenes Of Winter (1979); The Dead (1987); The African Queen (1951); Johnny Guitar (1954); The Sterile Cuckoo (1969); The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973); The Rain People (196...
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Re: Isn't it about time for The African Queen?
Who would be the best participants for a future audio commentary ?
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Re: Isn't it about time for The African Queen?
Thanks for the update, guys.
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Re: Isn't it about time for The African Queen?
For those asking questions about what was asked to the Paramount
executives, please look in the HOLLYWOOD MEET FORUM at the top
of the forum listings page.
The executives were divided among the attendees so I have no
idea what was asked outside of my table. I am very doubtful most
of your questions were even asked as our attendees had questions
of their own. Perhaps one of your questions was asked.
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I really hope with WINGS that someone at Paramount goes to the motion picture academy library and consults the cutting continuity that the Special Collections department has. It is missing reel 1, but the list of intertitles for the rest of the film is there, along with the tinting for each shot and even where the gunfire from the plane's machine guns was to be hand colored! As I recall, it even listed the Magna(scope? -vision?) sections, where the screen was to open up and the picture was to become HUGE. If you watch the home video version you'll notice that for the last half hour of part one the intertitles lettering is quite smaller. This is where the image was to be enlarged and the letters are smaller so they would't be jarring and actually match the size for the other titles.
I had the VHS, then the LD (autographed by Gaylord Carter and Buddy Rogers before it was lost in the Northridge earthquake to a TV falling on it and getting water damaged-damn!) and now an R7 DVD which are all the same version. The Academy showed the film a few years ago with live accompanyment and said it was a restoration, but that is all I know about it (out of town-2nd damn!).
I got tired of waiting for Paramount to release DVDs of those silent films they reissued in the 80's on VHS so I have been doing my own transfers and they look quite good. Since I don't think we'll ever get THE WEDDING MARCH with the original Vitaphone score, I'll settle for Gaylord Carter's, which is still a nice piece of work. Maybe they should farm these films out like they did HOUDINI and RHUBARB. . .
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So it's on Amazon, but there hasn't been an official press statement? Hopefully they jumped the gun and a formal press-release is coming early next week.
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
"This business has come a long way in the last 30 years, but why should I depress you"
I.A.L. Diamond on the Movie Business (1986)
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