TCFHE Press Release: The Robe (DVD/Blu-ray)

Originally Posted by Simon Howson

I would love to see some screen captures if you could post them. It is easy to do in VLC Media Player:
VLC media player - Overview

Just go File, Open Disc, change Disc Device to the drive letter of your DVD drive.

Then the menu screen should start. Then just go Video / Snap Shot to take captures.

I'll post captures from the original DVD to compare if you like.

Originally Posted by Douglas R

I've not done this before. Hope it works!

Originally Posted by BillyFeldman

I'll just remind that it is simply impossible to tell much from screencaps.

Originally Posted by BillyFeldman

I'm sure the new DVD looks great - the old DVD certainly did not.

Originally Posted by Billy Batson

Looking at the screen caps I can see why there's more picture infomation down both sides....everyone looks a bit slimmer!

Originally Posted by Jack Theakston

The problem with screencaps in general is that most people use the convenient JPG format to show them on the Internet, which means lossy compression.

Originally Posted by RolandL

Thank you for the screen shots.

Please compare the new DVD to this scene on the Lowry web site - LOWRY DIGITAL RESTORES "THE ROBE" . I did a compare to the old DVD - The Robe , and it looks like a lot is missing from the original frame but maybe that was never intended to be shown?

Originally Posted by GregK

On top of that, different programs save jpegs at different levels of compression..

Originally Posted by Joe Caps

I was hoping that Fox would come through with their promise of the Flat Version for this new set.

Originally Posted by Joe Caps

I have always been told that The Robe flat was tech. told this by someone who worked n the vid transfer.

Star is Bron started flat, but only tested in Warnerscope. Then went to Cinemascope.

Originally Posted by Interviewer

At the time you were asked to do The Robe were they [Fox] planning to do it in CinemaScope?

Originally Posted by Henry Koster

No. At that time, also, the first three-screen process, Cinerama, was shown. [Darryl] Zanuck was very enthusiastic about it. We talked about how fine it would be to do it in that process, but he said it would go into tremendous costs, because you had to have three cameras, three times the film, and three projectors, and the theaters were not equipped for it. But I said "This particular picture, with this tremendous scope of history and expensive sets, and mass production and huge numbers of people, would really lend itself very well to the large screen."

One evening Zanuck called and said, "Come over to the projection room on Western Avenue and see a new process of wide screen." We went there and the inventor [possibly Henri Chretien, or he could mean Fox R&D scientist Earl Sponable] was there , and they showed us CinemaScope samples. It was very impressive, and it had the great advantage over Cinerama that it needed only one camera and one projector. And the negative only had to be the size [35mm] it originally was It's squeezed in the lens and then spread out in the projector. We saw it and we were very enthusiastic...

Zanuck asked me what I thought, and I said "I can only say one thing. If the motion pictures that Edison had invented had been this way, on the wide screen, and somebody came today and said wouldn't it be nice to have it only one-third that size and width, nobody would do it."

Originally Posted by Joe Caps

I have always been told that The Robe flat was tech. told this by someone who worked n the vid transfer.