Noach Kowalski
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According to Amazon Canada, bluray is coming on August 12!
Ideally, they'd take the same approach as Blade Runner and present a box set of all extant versions, swimming in extras, doing whatever is possible to make the dubbing less jarring. If they don't want to do new extras, there's plenty of stuff in the archive they could include (when and why did isolated scores become a luxury only Twilight Time could afford?). They do need to go more in-depth into the history of the film. Even The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story skirts around the reasons for the Sherman Brothers' departure from Disney; dropping a third of this film's score was definitely one of many reasons, but all we heard was "it just wasn't the same" as Miss Price sang the last verse of "The Age of Not Believing."darkrock17 said:I'm beyond estatic about this release, FINALLY my favorite live action Disney movie get's the blu-ray treatment. Now the most important thing for me for this release is Disney going to give it the edition it trully deserves? I'm hoping they do this right, and that there's new interviews or an audio commentary from Angela.
The dubbing for the 25th Anniversary never bothered me, as I never notice it when I first watched it on TV and then on DVD. I guess I'm not the kinda of person who notices those things.
Who owns the rights to that? The fact that they were able to get Disney clips at all is amazing.classicmovieguy said:Even that marvellous TCM documentary "The Age of Believing", which tracked the production of the Walt-era live-action classics with tonnes of interviews with the surviving stars (still unavailable on video) would be a most welcome inclusion with this release.
TCM and WB have the same corporate parent, so that made it easier to include a TCM documentary on a DVD of The Wizard of Oz. I suspect new licensing agreements would have to be drawn up. With whom I can't say with all certainty, though.darkrock17 said:I'm kinda surprised that TCM documentary hasn't been released on DVD yet, but then again TCM dosen't release a lot of their documentaries or specials that the air. It wasn't until the 2005 DVD release of The Wizard Of Oz, that I was finally able to see the Memories of Oz documentary in full.