Turner Classic Movies and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment team up on TCM VAULT COLLECTION DVDs - Page 2

Only the RKO Lost & Found set, House Across the Bay, and Sundown. Everything else from the TCM Vault label was originally released pressed. However, presumably after a limited pressed run, they are sold MOD.

Pre-ordered the Noir Vol. 3 at MoviesUnlimited today. My first order with them. Hope everything will work smoothly.

I've often used them instead of the TCM site and have never had a problem.

Do you have a link for the Noir set. I received a coupon good in my email today that if you order at TCM shop by nov 13, you get 10 percent off 50 or 15 percent off 75 or 20 percent off a hundred with coupon code "SAVE." But I can't find it to order.

As far as I know, it's only shown up on the Movies Unlimited site.

I wonder if I can call the Turner shop and order on the phone. Moviesunlimited gives a product number on their site. I wonder if they match on the turner shop. I might try before the 13th. Thanks for your answer.

Yes they do.

 

TCM Shop now has "UPA Jolly Frolics" for pre-order, a March 5 release.

Schilling & Lane. I was sure such a set was listed for issue or was issued but then later I could no longer find any reference to it and I could get no response from the places I had seen it listed. Rather strange. I guess I have all the Three Stooges material and over all the quality is superb(video & audio). The none Three Stooges were shown on early Australian TV under a generic title: Hilarious Hundreds. I got to see Keaton, Andy Clyde, Langdon etc. The Stooges were in the package but were butchered. They would show one sort of complete and then show the second in the same 30mins spot with ads(less ads then allocated). This meant the second one was heavily butchered to fit. I went to a Catholic boys' college for Year 7-up and one of the kids in my class had a father at the station and used to bring matchboxes to school with 16mm frames or strips from these Stooges shorts. He wanted to go into TV and later, when I was working, I came across him near the same school filming a car accident in the pouring rain and it was for same TV station that butchered those films. 

 

But there were lots of other shorts besides the series we are talking about that I have seen little of that Columbia handled, even if on distribution(unfortunately they had too much on distribution where the rights have reverted elsewhere along with the chance of clean restoration or anything else). There were certainly musical gems right back to 1929.

 

We can live in hope. 

Just as an FYI, Movies Unlimited is offering a THANKSGIVING code that gives you 20% off. It would appear that it works on pre-orders because I just applied it to the upcoming Bogart set and got it knocked down to $35.99.

What is the story with the free shipping with 50 dollar purchase?. I tried the Thanksgiving coupon with a preorder and i wouldn't give free shipping.

It only works if it is $50 with the discount.

Thanks I got it to work. It was a a piece of text that i had to push to get free shipping. I'm still deciding because I want the UPA jolly set too with the Noir set. They only have it on preorder on the TCM shop. I wonder why moviesunlimited.com and tcmshop can't both get the titles added on at the same time.

Would someone please confirm, as soon as it's possible, whether the Bogart set uses pressed discs or not? Much thanks!

I spoke with 2 reps at the TCM store who said that only the Universal-sourced TCM titles are DVD-R after their initial run and that all Columbia-sourced titles (Bogart, UPA, Film Noir 3) are to be pressed discs.

Well that's nice to know. Sort of takes the pressure off to pre-order, although not being sure I went ahead and pre-ordered the Bogie set. It already shipped so I'll probably have it by the weekend.

Excellent, thank you Mike.

The Bogie set is now back down to $34.99, and TCM is offering free shipping today until 5 PM EST. Code is "TCMSHIP."

Certainly a great time to order the set. I think I ended up paying $10 more with shipping included last month.

Just received my Bogie set. To confirm, the discs are pressed. Ben Mankiewicz intros and the usual gallery of stills, etc.

I placed my Bogart DVD order on November 4 and it has not shipped yet;it still has a status of "Active."

I even paid the $5.95 instead of $4.95 for slightly quicker shipping (3-7 days.) To those who received it yet, did you pay for the 2 day shipping?

I just paid the standard shipping and even got 20% off list during the black friday promotion. Basically, I ordered it the weekend before release. The difference might be that I ordered mine from Movies Unlimited instead of TCM.

Just received the Bogie set. It's so great to have these films collected together, even though the hub-less holders can easily scratch the discs.

Does anyone else's copy of "Love Affair" skip at about 9:31?

Just checked my copy - no skipping.

The hubless packaging of 4/5 of the discs is one of the strangest I've encountered. Took me a few minutes to figure out that I need to push the disc horizontally down across the plastic surface to free the disc from to two tabs holding it. At least, unlike stacked discs with hubs, the hubless prevents the top disc from getting its upper edge scratched on the bottom disc. Hopefully this is a step up in stacked design.

Could someone provide a photo of the interior packaging, please?

This is very frustrating and Sony and Universal has used this type of packaging a couple of times.  I feel I am going to crack the disc before I get the damn thing out.  Whoever designed this was having a good day in Sargent Pepper Land. 

 

In thinking about potential TCM/Sony releases, I've decided that a Frank Capra/Barbara Stanwyck Collection (Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Woman, Forbidden, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), a Joan Crawford Collection (They All Kissed the Bride, Harriet Craig, Autumn Leaves, The Story of Esther Costello), and a Rosalind Russell collection (Craig's Wife, This Thing Called Love, What a Woman, A Woman of Distinction) would all serve as great additions to this already fantastic collection.