Recent content by bigshot

1.33 I just got this set in the mail. Haven't watched it yet, but the packaging is great. First class set.

The Fleischer... UCLA generally credits the organizations that financed the photochemical restoration on a head title card. You've followed the formatting of their card on your tail credit on Somewhere In Dreamland, but I think you've left off some of the credits. I don't remember specifically...

You should include UCLA's credits as well. They put them on the head of the film.

Even if you are working directly with two, you are working with more. For instance several Fleischer films were restored by UCLA with funding for the photochemical restoration from ASIFA-Hollywood. The films at UCLA have a title card at the head that lists the organizations responsible for...

And remember to give credit to everyone else whose work contributes to yours... The Library of Congress, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, ASIFA-Hollywood, Serge Bromberg, archives like Cineteca Bologna... It's a group effort by a community. It isn't just one person saving the world like...

It doesn't work like that. People like me who support Thunderbean, Cartoons on Film, and the various rare silent films that turn up on Kickstarters aren't looking for the "best" disk. We know that hundred year old films aren't going to look perfect. One transfer might be better for one thing and...

AnimationResources.org has contributed to your project.

You don't have to pre-order. You can wait for the official discs until they are released. The advance orders finance the transfers and restoration. No one else is interested in doing this. So Steve's one man show is all there is. If the wait ever gets too long, just submit a request though the...

Stop Motion Marvels has shipped. Amazing puppet animation you would never be able to see otherwise. I got my copy this week. The special discs are grab bags on a theme. Rarely seen films from all over. As Steve runs across rare film prints, he does a quick film transfer to document them. The...

They're talking about Bacchus getting drunk and frolicking with girl centaurettes and ghost witches' tits.

I found it fascinating. So many films I had never seen or heard of before! But the Caligari doc was even better. Well worth importing.

Spielberg produced it. And it has his fingers all over it.

Same same. The thing about Clayton's movie is that Truman Capote's script added a very sophisticated layer of ambiguity. The plot isn't what is really happening. There is something going on under the surface that is just referred to obliquely in whispers. You never know if what you are seeing is...

I'm thinking that the new Netflix Haunting of Bly House is to Jack Clayton's The Innocents as this Haunting remake is to Wise's version. Shifted emphasis to all the wrong things.