RobertSiegel
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Well, first word has started to come out about the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music (my all time favorite movie)for release in March of 2015 (at least overseas). Here is a picture of the cover of the steelbook, which is the same as the regular edition:
http://www.steelbookbluray.com/2014/12/the-sound-of-music-is-getting-a-50th-anniversary-steelbook-release-in-march/
The only new feature I have hard of is a new 1 hour documentary on Julie Andrews return to Austria. Personally, I was really hoping and praying for a 3D conversion. I have nothing against movies being converted as long as we are given the original version. I was thinking all year, wow, if any movie in the Fox library would be incredible to convert to 3D it would be this one. Look at that cinematography, its as if many of the scenes were already plabnned for 3d. The opening scene, Julie and the kids coming up the stairs at the end of Do Re Mi, all of the beautiful backgrounds. With this announcement of a regular 50th anniversary blu-ray I think my dream will not come true though we have all year. I am sure there would be alot of debate on this, but being my all-time favorite movie, I would welcome a 3D conversion if it were done by experts like those who did The Wizard of Oz and Titanic.
In any case, I at least hope that Fox fixes the awful color mistakes they made on the first blu-ray. Take a look at the new covers in the link above, this is the correct color of Julie Andrews hair for the film. In 2 of her books and several interviews, she discussed having her hair dyed blond and mentioned she almost fainted when she saw how light it is. Now take a look at the Blu-ray at the very start of Do Re Mi or the My Favorite Things scene. It's a red color. There are also major tours for the 50th anniversary, like these:
http://www.musiccelebrations.com/festivals/2015/soundofmusic.html
https://watfordcolosseum.co.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=A944A31D-F4C5-44E5-B889-7DFDCDC03E61
http://www.salzburg.info/en/art_culture/sound_of_music/50_years_sound_of_music
or one in the USA at the Trapp lodge:
http://theupperclass.net/destinations/multi-day-tours/50th-anniversary-of-the-sound-of-music
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If anyone comes across anything about the 50th anniversary of the film, please post it here.
http://www.steelbookbluray.com/2014/12/the-sound-of-music-is-getting-a-50th-anniversary-steelbook-release-in-march/
The only new feature I have hard of is a new 1 hour documentary on Julie Andrews return to Austria. Personally, I was really hoping and praying for a 3D conversion. I have nothing against movies being converted as long as we are given the original version. I was thinking all year, wow, if any movie in the Fox library would be incredible to convert to 3D it would be this one. Look at that cinematography, its as if many of the scenes were already plabnned for 3d. The opening scene, Julie and the kids coming up the stairs at the end of Do Re Mi, all of the beautiful backgrounds. With this announcement of a regular 50th anniversary blu-ray I think my dream will not come true though we have all year. I am sure there would be alot of debate on this, but being my all-time favorite movie, I would welcome a 3D conversion if it were done by experts like those who did The Wizard of Oz and Titanic.
In any case, I at least hope that Fox fixes the awful color mistakes they made on the first blu-ray. Take a look at the new covers in the link above, this is the correct color of Julie Andrews hair for the film. In 2 of her books and several interviews, she discussed having her hair dyed blond and mentioned she almost fainted when she saw how light it is. Now take a look at the Blu-ray at the very start of Do Re Mi or the My Favorite Things scene. It's a red color. There are also major tours for the 50th anniversary, like these:
http://www.musiccelebrations.com/festivals/2015/soundofmusic.html
https://watfordcolosseum.co.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=A944A31D-F4C5-44E5-B889-7DFDCDC03E61
http://www.salzburg.info/en/art_culture/sound_of_music/50_years_sound_of_music
or one in the USA at the Trapp lodge:
http://theupperclass.net/destinations/multi-day-tours/50th-anniversary-of-the-sound-of-music
.
If anyone comes across anything about the 50th anniversary of the film, please post it here.