Mr. Finn- Are we getting more TODD-AO blurays in the future?

those would be most welcome

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Originally Posted by GMpasqua 

those would be most welcome

 

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Yes, every single one of those films would likely make a stunning Blu-ray release. I'd like to see them all.

Thanks

Here's some more

I'm definitely on board for these.

I especially want to see a restoration on the very first Todd-AO film: Oklahoma! The two DVDs both had major problems.

Oklahoma needs a full restoration given the problems with the negs. Hopefully Fox is doing so.

and since Fox is responsible for handling MGM's output, how about the following TODD-AO films controlled by MGM?

PORGY AND BESS (1959)

THE ALAMO (1960)

KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA (1969)

THE LAST VALLEY (1971)

It can't happen, but I'd like to see the TODD-AO AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS.

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Originally Posted by trajan 

I would love to see a TODD-AO transfer of AIRPORT, but its Universal and that's another story. 

I don't know, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Dazed and Confused made it, Airport just might make it.  It has been pretty good seller for them over the years and the Airport Terminal Pack stroked up some good sale numbers.
 

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Originally Posted by Mark B 

It can't happen, but I'd like to see the TODD-AO AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS.

It can't happen? My home video collection is full of titles that people said would never come out.

It would be great if Fox would come out with Blu-ray series called ROADSHOW and include theirs and the MGM owned titles that played roadshow engagements.  Make sure the release has the entire roadshow experience from the overture to the exit music.  Create a short documentary on the history of the roadshow film from the silent era up to the demise of it in the early 70's.  Also create a making of documentary for the film with an emphasis on the release history of it. Some of the films release history is as interesting as the history of making the film, such as Star!

Hello Dolly, Doctor Dolittle, The King & I, Cleopatra, Hawaii, Star!, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Hallelujah Trail, Exodus, The Great Escape and others would all fit in to this series and have a release every four months, just as a roadshow title would be released.  Just a suggestion.

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Originally Posted by ahollis 

It would be great if Fox would come out with Blu-ray series called ROADSHOW and include theirs and the MGM owned titles that played roadshow engagements.  Make sure the release has the entire roadshow experience from the overture to the exit music.  Create a short documentary on the history of the roadshow film from the silent era up to the demise of it in the early 70's.  Also create a making of documentary for the film with an emphasis on the release history of it. Some of the films release history is as interesting as the history of making the film, such as Star!

 

Hello Dolly, Doctor Dolittle, The King & I, Cleopatra, Hawaii, Star!, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Hallelujah Trail, Exodus, The Great Escape and others would all fit in to this series and have a release every four months, just as a roadshow title would be released.  Just a suggestion.

I've brought this marketing concept up a few times in the past. FOX should do a "Roadshow" series - just as you said. Maybe even a Box set (Cleopatra, Star, Those Magnificent Men, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Dolittle, Hello Dolly) Maybe a Digibook with 6 sleeves

This way they can sell the titles with less interest at the same time (The films may not appeal to a wide audience but the look of the discs will surely prompt more people to watch these films and maybe discover them)

Blu-ray eye candy

These Todd-AO films were expensive - but the money shows on the screen

By the way "The King and I" was never a roadshow (It was brought back in early 60's in a 70MM blow up but that engagement was not a roadshow)

I have a friend that managed the Liberty Theatre in Beaumont, TX and he played The King & I on a reserved seat engagement during the 1961 70mm re-release.  The Overture was not added until that release as I understand. The reason I recall on an extra on the Laserdisc box set said that the studio got a lot of questions about the overture since it was on the soundtrack album and not on the original release in 1956. 

I think there were rumors a couple of years ago about both The Agony and the Ecstasy and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines coming out on blu, but they seemed to have disappeared.  Perhaps Fox is still working on them.

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Originally Posted by Matt Stieg 

I think there were rumors a couple of years ago about both The Agony and the Ecstasy and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines coming out on blu, but they seemed to have disappeared.  Perhaps Fox is still working on them.

Agony has just shown up in an HD master on netflix. I haven't looked at it yet though.
 

It was back in 2009 that the talk about THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY and THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES being restored.

From Blu-ray.com (July 13, 2009)

"20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has commissioned HTV illuminate Arts-Media-Entertainment to restore two of its classics for a Blu-ray release later this year: 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' and 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines', two 1965 films shot in Todd-AO (a film format that used 65mm negatives and 70mm release prints)."

I would guess by this time the HD transfers are sitting on the self. 

 

Seeing a film in Todd-AO esp with a new print is truly a wonderful experience - even when the film isn't great, it makes a world of difference

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Originally Posted by ahollis 

It was back in 2009 that the talk about THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY and THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES being restored.

 

 

From Blu-ray.com (July 13, 2009)

"20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has commissioned HTV illuminate Arts-Media-Entertainment to restore two of its classics for a Blu-ray release later this year: 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' and 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines', two 1965 films shot in Todd-AO (a film format that used 65mm negatives and 70mm release prints)."

 

I would guess by this time the HD transfers are sitting on the self. 

 

They were probably done for HD tv at the time. The films themselve need little to hardly any restoration, the prints screened in LA were true perfection

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is available in Asia and had a limited release in the UK, so it will find its way eventually

The Roadshow box idea is a fabulous one. You could do Roadshow Musicals or Roadshows (for the non-musicals). I'm in favor of anything that gets these films onto Blu-ray discs and into our hands.

as i mentioned in another tread today ;

you can all "sign up to be notified" at Amazon for most of these titles -  in bluray

It might take a while, but releases is often trigger by DEMAND, and  the Amazon statistic over titles of HIGH demand are often given priority in the pipe line

it has happend more than once that a title has been bumped up based ond DEMAND from Amazon  so go ahead and "force the studios" :D

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B00172R37I/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0

While better films ("The Godfather", "All the Presidents Men" "Dog Day Afternoon") have been released, the weren't filmed in TODD-AO. They used the grainy 1970's film stocks and look okay, but the movies filmed in TODD-AO would be demonstration quality.

Yes, you can't compare "The Godfather" with "Doctor Dolittle" but Dolittle would look incredible on Blu and make sitting through it quite a bit easier

I saw "Dolittle" as a kid on tv (I was 8?).

As an adult went to a screening in 35mm attended by Samantha Eggar and thought the film truly awful.

Saw it a few years later during the 70MM festival at the Egyptian in LA and  -  it was a totally different film. 

Maybe I was just taken by the amount of detail in the settings and costumes plus the sound was magnificent. Truly a pleasure to watch. The colors, the textures, the location shooting - this was a very expensive film - all up there on the screen. "Star!" also - incredible, "Hello Dolly" -  even better (it is the better of the FOX musicals films) "Patton", "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines", "Cleopatra" - all spectacular. 

If you have only seen these films on TV you really haven't experienced them the way they were meant to be seen

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Originally Posted by GMpasqua 

I saw "Dolittle" as a kid on tv (I was 8?).

As an adult went to a screening in 35mm attended by Samantha Eggar and thought the film truly awful.

Saw it a few years later during the 70MM festival at the Egyptian in LA and  -  it was a totally different film.

Similar to what happened to me and CHITTY CHITTY on Blu. Been watching it since the 70s on TV, then VHS, then DVD. Always found myself a bit bored but stuck it out. Watching the Blu I was hypnotized. Go figure.

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Originally Posted by Mark B 

Similar to what happened to me and CHITTY CHITTY on Blu. Been watching it since the 70s on TV, then VHS, then DVD. Always found myself a bit bored but stuck it out. Watching the Blu I was hypnotized. Go figure.

 

I've been having the same experience with this one with my daughter....I actually saw this one in a drive in during the late 60s and as much as I can recall (since I was about 4) it looked great then....