Recent content by DeWilson

Well, this is a surprise...

Don't know how I feel about this - Sony's History with the Columbia Movie and TV Library for the last 35 years, and the sloppiness of the studio's Assets management team as far as I'm concerned, is they should tend to their house first.

But don't they run the shows edited and/or time compressed?

You're welcome! Thankfully some of the 2-inch video tape stuff did survive elsewhere - UCLA has all of "Don Adam's Screen Test" - including the unaired pilot. Jack Benny's 10 color hour long specials survived, and were released on Time-Life, so those existed elsewhere. (May have never been...

They are also getting out of the music business as well, according to Billboard.

In the U.S, The compilation of the Trickster episodes was released on VHS only. The other compilation of the Nightshade episodes wasn't released in the U.S. on VHS, but did get released on VHS in the U.K.

When they used a clip on THE FLASH during the "Crisis" cross-over a few years ago, they clearly used a SD clip from the series - wasn't even a FX clip, it was Tina talking to Barry - they could have found the 35mm raw elements in the vault for that one scene and transferred it to HD. All we got...

The vault that went up was a working vault for syndication for television, as well as used for 35mm theatrical prints for revival showings. The reason we've not seen a lot of shows from MCA/Revue/Universal Television is they simply don't want to go into the MASTER VAULT (where everything is...

I can't see that AFFECTING any of the extras, except perhaps commentary of any living performer (Like Dick Van Dyke) most of the actor commentaries are archival, and they are dead. KINO one of the last boutique labels, they should be honest with the fanbase on this - not hide behind...

Well, why would The current Universal (NBC/Comcast) care - that was TWO owners ago...but what if HIS estate is the one making the fuss - didn't Falk own a piece of the show?

Seems the price isn't coming down on this either, so I guess that might be why KINO has to recover the cost they spent on the extra we are not getting!

I've never seen a complete list of which existing shorts still have their music/fX soundtracks existing as well. Those interest me the most, as does the late Pathe era since few of those have been available. On a similar note, what ever happened to THE MISCHIF MAKERS episodes?

ParamountGlobal owns CBS, and CBS lays claim to all the Benny TV shows pre-1955, or something like that. After that it's Universal (MCA) and Jack's Estate.

How are the elements across the board for the available MGM era silents - the 1927-1929s? The shorts released with synchronized music and sound effects interest me greatly... that transition period.

David - do you guys have access to ALL the existing elements of the silent OUR GANG shorts that are known to exist?