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I will vote for re-do on this one also. It is one missing void in my collection on 70's disaster flicks.
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Laserdisc only had a trailer. I still have the disc.
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How many sides was it? CAV or CLV? $39.99? Letterbox?
Those damn Laserdiscs were huge when I was younger. I never really had any. Just was VHS to DVD to HDDVD to Blu-ray disc. Of course I still buy all of the last three and zero VHS.
If I could afford it, I'd buy one of the absolute best LD players and transfer all those extras which aren't on DVD-HDDVD-Blu as a customised extras disc. Same thing I said/typed for Logan's Run since the upcoming Blu/DVD doesn't have all features from the LD. As such, it'd be a personalised custom 2-Disc set. Nope it wouldn't be bootlegging since LD is dead dead dead. I for one highly support the preservation of LD content which aren't on any of the current 12cm disc formats.
Too bad Beetlejuice, POLTERGEIST and various other releases from WB contain crappy special features. Especially Poltergeist not having the great E! True Hollywood Story. Can't even call Beetlejuice an Anniversary release.
It is two discs, three sides in CLV with the trailer included. It is listed as Stereo Surround, but I swear it is only 2.0. It is in widescreen but of course non-anamorphic.
I really loved the laser discs at their time, for it was the first time that I could see many films in their correct aspect ratio and not pan-scan for television and VHS. There was nothing like the whirrrrrr of the disc spinning in the machine as it started and the FOX/CBS letterbox discs had a special logo that was four channel stereo and went all over the room.
Of course that is a time long gone, but my laser player still works and I still have a couple hundred discs that have not made it to DVD yet, such as The Hindenburg, Cold Turkey, Brewster McCloud, Circus World, 55 Days in Peking, The Cobweb, General Spanky, The Human Comedy, Whoopee, Palmy Days, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Wild Rovers, and Samson & Delilah just to name a few.
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The 2.0 mix on the Hindenburg DVD is not the original either, it is a stereo downmix of the original 6-track mix that was used on 70mm prints.
A 5.1 lossless mix would sound closer to the original than 2.0.
If pre-Dolby magnetic-stereo films such as South Pacific and The Robe were coming out on bluray in 2.0 stereo only, lossless or not, film buffs would be foaming at the mouth... ( myself included
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Wasn't this one of the Goodtimes-Universal DVD releases in the earlier days. I believe that was the reason I did not replace my laser copy, because it was actually a better transfer than that DVD. I think the only Goodtimes Universal DVD I purchased was Airport and that was because it was letterboxed and laser was not.
And you are so right about sound now. If South Pacific or The Robe was not at peak form on sound, there would be H to pay.
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For anyone with a multi region player, the UK R2 DVD (from Anchor Bay) of the Hindenburg is a nice 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer.
Oh the humanity! I just checked and my Hindenburg's region uno, bought 6 years ago. I might have to buy it again.
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