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The Incredible Shrinking Man & This Island Earth DVDS/OAR?

post #1 of 71
9/22/03 at 1:56pm
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Any word on when this will make it to DVD?
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post #2 of 71
9/22/03 at 2:48pm
With Universal in such chaos, I would not expect it anytime soon. Thank heavens for my LD.
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post #3 of 71
9/22/03 at 3:14pm
It will come. It's a cash cow. Probably as part of the next "wave" of horror, although it would be more suited to a first wave of "sci-fi" classics. Universal sucks.
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post #4 of 71
9/22/03 at 3:53pm
One of the best sci-fi movies ever made... It's a crying shame it's not yet available on DVD. My old VHS tape is crying out to be retired.
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post #5 of 71
9/22/03 at 6:22pm
I would love to see it. Considering Universal is the worst studio for handling DVDs, who knows when it will come and HOW it will come.
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post #6 of 71
2/22/05 at 7:55am
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Any updated word on this title???
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post #7 of 71
2/22/05 at 10:11am
Most likely it will be released to tie in with the Eddie Murphy remake scheduled for release later this year or the DVD release of same.
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post #8 of 71
2/22/05 at 11:02am
Enjoyed this via 35mm film at the Lafayette theater's Sci-Fi film festival this past summer...
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post #9 of 71
2/22/05 at 5:14pm
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Most likely it will be released to tie in with the Eddie Murphy remake scheduled for release later this year or the DVD release of same.


Not another terrible Eddie Murphy movie!
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post #10 of 71
2/22/05 at 7:41pm
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Not another terrible Eddie Murphy movie!

I'm all for it, if it'll net us the original.
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post #11 of 71
2/23/05 at 12:06am
Why must we have horse manure remakes to get original versions of films released on DVD? I just have no good feelings about anything Universal does these days! Thank heavens for my LD.
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post #12 of 71
2/23/05 at 3:09am
Yeah, Universal needs to get in gear. We need not only THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, but the rest of their 1950s sci-fi collection (TARANTULA, THE MOLE PEOPLE, MONOLITH MONSTERS, THE LEECH WOMAN, MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS, etc... etc...)

Also the rest of their "Horror Legacy":
THE BLACK CAT (1934)
THE RAVEN (1935)
THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936}
BLACK FRIDAY (1940)
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1933)
MURDERS IN THE ZOO (1933)
MAN MADE MONSTER (1941)
HORROR ISLAND (1941)
MAD DOCTOR OF MARKET STREET (1942)
THE BLACK CAT (1941)
THE MAD GHOUL (1943)
CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (1943)
JUNGLE WOMAN (1944)
THE JUNGLE CAPTIVE (1945)
HOUSE OF HORRORS (1946)
INNER SANCTUM SERIES WITH LON CHANEY (6 Films)


(these are titles just off the top of my head; there are others)
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post #13 of 71
10/27/05 at 3:36am
Those with multi-region players might like to know that both The Incredible Shrinking Man and Tarantula are being released in R2 come February (see here), but surely R1 releases can't be far off?
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post #14 of 71
10/27/05 at 4:05am
Ah yes, I remember buying the deluxe digest edition of this on Super 8mm back in the 70s. It was always a favorite, and will absolutely buy it when it hits DVD.
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post #15 of 71
10/27/05 at 7:06am
This is one of my most wanted DVDs. I'd love to have Tarantula too!
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post #16 of 71
10/27/05 at 7:12am
Should I go with R2 or wait for R1...the agony!!!

dave
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post #17 of 71
10/27/05 at 7:54am
It's a point isn't it? The reason I haven't bought the R2 Double Indemnity is because I'm praying for a minor miracle and for the R1 to come stuffed with extras (and I also still believe in the tooth fairy).

Looking at the price point at www.play.com these will undoubtedly be barebones discs in R2; BTW anyone clocked the R2 release of The Heiress also noted in that link above?
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post #18 of 71
10/27/05 at 8:54am
It seems like a candidate for a Franchise Collection set along with Tarantula, It Came From Outer Space, Mole People, Deadly Mantis etc. They still yet to do The Golden Age of Sci Fi set. Perhaps sometime in 2006.
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post #19 of 71
10/27/05 at 8:56am
Mole people!

A classic!!!!!!

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post #20 of 71
11/8/05 at 2:53pm
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE is also being released in R2 next February, supported by a half-hour documentary called THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING TO UNIVERSAL.

This would further suggest that a boxset or franchise collection is on the way. The other Universal films scheduled for release that month are THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, TARANTULA and RETURN OF THE CREATURE. Not sure how (or if) that hangs together but that's the info for now.
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post #21 of 71
11/8/05 at 9:07pm
I think we'll get it on a DVD 18 release along with Tarantula and Monolith Monsters. unfortuantely Shrinking man will be the side that does'nt work.
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post #22 of 71
11/8/05 at 11:42pm
MONOLITH MONSTERS!
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post #23 of 71
11/9/05 at 4:10pm
TCM will be running this movie in the next few months. I plan to tape this and hopefully tide me over until Universal gets its collective act together and releases it.
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post #24 of 71
1/14/06 at 8:58am
What is the correct aspect ratio of The Incredible Shrinking Man? The British DVD release of The Incredible Shrinking Man is 1.78:1 - is that the correct aspect ratio or has it been formatted from 1.33:1 to 1.78:1 to accommodate widescreen televisions?
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post #25 of 71
1/14/06 at 9:46am
It should be 1.85, that's how the leaders were marked on the 35mm print that I ran last year.
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post #26 of 71
1/15/06 at 9:26am
Not to confuse what Pete said, because INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN is clearly 1.85, but Universal's suggested ARs and what the film is much more clearly intended to be are two different things.

THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955) is listed in their projection books as 2:1, as is TAZA, SON OF COCHISE. Just flipping through my collection of Box Office magazines from 1954, here are other listed 2:1 U-I titles:
DRUMS ACROSS THE RIVER
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
BLACK HORSE CANYON
JOHNNY DARK
TANGANYIKA
DAWN AT SOCORRO
DESTRY

At the same time, they suggested 1.85 for THUNDER BAY (1953), a film that was clearly shot 1.37 (even the titles), but pushed to be run 1.85 for the up and coming widescreen boom (Universal's first film with mag sound, too!) Same problem with IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, but this is --perhaps unintentionally-- corrected on the DVD.

Unfortunately, Universal doesn't seem to pay attention to such minor details as aspect ratios-- look at the full-frame transfers of Abbott and Costello Vol. 4 set with MEET THE MUMMY and MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS, which should be 1.85 (and really benefit from being seen widescreen). It particularly hurts MEET THE MUMMY, where matting the film hid the strings holding up the snakes in the snake-charming gag. They still didn't help "Klaris's" zipper!
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post #27 of 71
1/15/06 at 9:32am
my OOP DVD of THIS ISLAND EARTH is full frame, and at 1:85, I think it might be too tight. Was 1:78 a format used in those days?
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post #28 of 71
1/15/06 at 9:44am
All the video editions of TIE are 1.37... U-I's policy seems to have been strictly 1.85 and 2:1 for their flat, so I would tend to think that this one was 2:1. I will post some pictures of the film run 1.85 and 2:1 later.
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post #29 of 71
1/19/06 at 7:56am
For starters, please exuse the poor quality of these scans... they do NOT reflect what the actual film looks like (which is downright stunning). See what you think...

Opening titles (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Establishing shot (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Jeff Morrow as Exeter (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Exeter
1.85
2:1

Spaceship (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Metaluna's destruction (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Metaluna Mutant (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Cargo hold (1.37)
1.85
2:1

New Sun (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Returning to Earth (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Flaming spaceship (1.37)
1.85
2:1

End Titles (1.37)
1.85
2:1

Also, THIS ISLAND EARTH has by far one of the best Perspecta tracks Universal ever mixed. Even if they decide to do this one full frame again, it would be a real pity if they didn't reinsert the stereo track to it (and REAL Perspecta, not any of this Chase crap that Criterion has been marketing as Perspecta!)
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post #30 of 71
1/19/06 at 8:01am
I saw incredible shrinking Man at 1.85:1 at the sci-fi movie festival at the Laffayette theater in NY and it looked appropriate.
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