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Ordered The Big Heat (1953) and Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter (1969). Waiting for the end of February for the Big 5 Year Anniversary (assuming TT has one) for some more TT wish list titles.
 

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I think Krakatoa East of Java (actually west of java), Custer of the West and Song of Norway (all released in 70mm Cinerama) are owned by Disney.

Correct, owned by Disney, leased to MGM, but agreement prevents MGM from sub-leasing the Disney titles to a third party. It's up to MGM to put them out or Disney if agreement is not renewed. There is a possibility that the agreement has expired.
 

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That's good news. I knew the license was up at anytime from the middle of last year to the middle of this year. Just didn't know the exact end.

Not really. MGM is much more likely to licence out titles than Disney.
 

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Not really. MGM is much more likely to licence out titles than Disney.

But the Disney agreement with MGM did not allow MGM to sub-licenese any of those titles to another company. Now that they are back with Disney, the titles could be sub licenced to another company as they were to MGM.
 

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But the Disney agreement with MGM did not allow MGM to sub-licenese any of those titles to another company. Now that they are back with Disney, the titles could be sub licenced to another company as they were to MGM.

Ah, okay. How was Criterion able to release Notorious and the other Hitchcocks, then? Or did that predate the MGM deal?
 

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The were licenced to Criterion title by title by ABC. When those licences ended ABC then licensed the Selzenick titles and the ABC titles to MGM. Previously the ABC titles were licenced to Anchor Bay. Disney bought ABC and then renewed the MGM license a year or two later and that was the agreement that has terminated
 

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I've been visiting this thread every time I've seen an update; I am hoping to read that somebody got a shipping notice. I am also hoping I get my own shipping notice. I'm not sure why, but I'm extra-eager this time!
 

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I've been visiting this thread every time I've seen an update; I am hoping to read that somebody got a shipping notice. I am also hoping I get my own shipping notice. I'm not sure why, but I'm extra-eager this time!
Not I and at times, the delays in their shipping is annoying to me. This is one of those times because of the titles involved.
 

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I should have noted that I ordered through Screen Archives.

Also, I think I *do* know why I'm eager this time; the specific titles*, to be sure, plus the fact that over the next few months, there are not as many titles that I find compelling.

*I've been on this Forum long enough to remember the outcry over the DVD release of Cowboy. I think at one time, in another thread - i.e., a thread not related to Cowboy - our members agreed to use the term MAR instead of OAR, where MAR meant Marred Aspect Ratio. So, even then, I had it in my head that I would one day very much look forward to owning Cowboy in OAR (not MAR).
 

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I ordered via th TT site. No shipping notice yet.

I did notice that the TT site's shipping charge now matches SAE's charge. (It was a bit cheaper to use TT)

Is there an advantage of using one over the other?
 

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Not I and at times, the delays in their shipping is annoying to me. This is one of those times because of the titles involved.
It seems as though there is but one employee in the Screen Archives warehouse doing all the packing and shipping by him/herself. I haven't tried ordering directly from TT, but it sounds as though the same wait time applies.
 

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I'm in for the 3-D, and Doolittle, Krakatoa, Hallelujah.

Hallelujah on BD would be fantastic. And much more to see it the first time in his negative ratio 2,76:1.
Is it true that 2,76:1 prints weren't ever released?
 
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