TARZAN Gordon Scott & Mike Henry - Page 4

You will find that the quality is acceptable.  They have not been cleaned up and has scratches and dirt and of course with the use of Metrocolor on some of the films, a little washed out.  But this does not hurt the enjoyment of the films.  Have fun.  Tarzan's Three Challenges is pure fun.

Has anyone noticed that "Tarzan's Three Challenges" is not anamorphically enhanced for widescreen?.....or did I just get a copy that was incorrectly transferred?  On my copy, the widescreen image is windowboxed instead of letterboxed.

Anyone?

Mine is anamorphic.  I watched it last night and and it went side to side.

Thanks, Allen.  I've already called customer service and they've agreed to send me a replacement....though I don't think she really understood what "anamorphically enhanced" meant.  I tried hard to explain it.

Hmm...my copy IS most definitely anamorphically 16:9 enhanced for widescreen....but there is still a bit of black on the left and right hand edges, as if the frame wasn't zoomed in completely. Thus I guess you could say it is "windowboxed" just a little bit, but it's nothing that's a real issue. Some monitors with varying overscan levels will show more of it than others.

 

Are you saying your DVD plays in 4:3 "letterbox"? There should be a big difference on a 16:9 set between 4:3 letterbox and a 16:9 transfer that is window-boxed just a little bit.
 

 

My copy is anamorphic with out any black bars on the sides.  I have checked it out on three players and monitors and all have the picture completely from left to right. 

I agree with you.  I ordered Susan and God and when I recived it, there was not a disk in the case.  One call and disc and new case was at my doorstep in two days. 

 

My copy is anamorphic as well, but I've seen the disc display slightly windowboxed on one monitor (when I have it in my TV's "Size2" HD crop setting; if I go to "Size1" it fills it out), and displayed entirely left to right on the other. Either way it's not a defective disc, but the way it was transferred, it's entirely possible some people are going to see a bit -- and I stress a BIT -- of black on the sides depending on their monitor's overscan settings.

 

Either way, there's a big difference between the disc being defective and non-anamorphic, which is what the poster was asking about, with a 16:9 disc that ends up being windowboxed just a tiny bit on certain monitors depending on their overscan. If it's the latter, he's likely going to experience the exact same thing with another copy of the disc. I've seen this DVD play both windowboxed and not, depending on the monitor I'm looking at.
 

Agreed, it is not defective and you are right about overscaning.

Can anyone comment on the quality of TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD? I may finally surrender and order my first WB Archive title during the DD sale.  I was just wondering how good the quality is and whether or not it includes the trailer.  Thanks for any information you can provide.

 

It is not a bad transfer, in fact the best of the last group of Tarzan films.  It is anamorphic as all of the Warner Archive title are.  The color is the a little muted, but that is more due to the use of Eastmancolor than the transfer.  The sound has a little flutter, but not anything that is distracting.  Just sounds like going through a 35mm projector in the 60's.

 

There is a trailer attached, but is not anamorphic. 

 

One fun item, it starts out with the original AIP logo.  Always fun to see that.

 

Enjoy it and purchase without fear.
 

Thank you, Allen! I appreciate your help.  I'm going to go for it. 

I wonder if they used the same transfer aired on AMC many years ago. They aired several of the later films widescreen.

 

Remember when AMC ran good old movies,without commercials?  :)

I've just begun to start getting some of these, mainly due to nostalgic reasons, having seen all the Gordon Scott Tarzan films on first theatrical release when I was a youngster. I've got TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT which looks fine, with TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE on the way. However, I'm a bit puzzled by the aspect ratio of LOST SAFARI. This was filmed in RKO Scope so should be 2.35:1 but I understand from posts above that the Archive title is 1.85:1? My memory may be hazy after so many years but I do remember thinking that the screen was a lot wider than normal at my local cinema. Does the disc appear cropped?

Some screengrabs (compressed JPG's):

 

 

 

both on sale now at wb archives, waiting to see if they do a Mahoney/Henry Box Set Next