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    A Sneak Peek at The Blue Max

    Oh, come on, Bruce...knives is it matey? And how much teal d'ye see in nature each and every day outside of bathroom rugs and ducks, eh? Never mind the "Mr. Billit", that would've been my dad's sig. I'm Bill Littman and I've no memory of teal, cyan and such viewing BLUE MAX way back when at...
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    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    FTR, Julie Kirgo is a Film Historian according to: mondomark.com kqek.com themortonreport.com zoominfo.com jonathanrosenbaum.net slantmagazine.com hometheaterforum.com worldcinemaparadise.com homecinemachoice.com highdefdigest.com mediamikes.com dvdbeaver.com tcm.com dvdverdict.com...
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    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    If you overlay cyan on to a scene where it wasn't in evidence when the scene was photographed, it's an unnatural hue and doesn't belong there. (and spare me all the PC references) Besides that, it washes out grays and browns, shadows and smoke. The overpaid techies who ascribe to this mess (God...
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    A Sneak Peek at The Blue Max

    This film is not brown and flat - but those who will compare the inevitable screen caps will say, well this one has a teal or blue push and they'll either just assume the completely wrong previous incarnations were correct or they'll certainly raise the specter of something being off in this new...
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    Blu-ray Review The Blue Max Blu-ray Review

    Is it just me or is there a cyan color sheen to the image that overlays, for example, the grays of the flyers' uniforms and the browns of Ms Andress' clothes? It gets pretty thick at times with James Mason's grayish cyan uniform matching the cyan tones of his office. Even the shot of the...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Khartoum & Zulu -- in Blu-ray

    Sorry to see that the Twilight Time Blu-ray is missing that specially-designed Paramount logo, though. Otherwise, great transfer.
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    TCM showing short version of Raintree County 168 minutes instead of roadshow 188 minutes at 5pm EST

    My understanding is that they leased usage of the Roadshow elements from a collector and then intercut the color-turned-red footage with a standard print. The lease seems to have run out. Don't know the status of the 70mm pre-print material. (70mm prints of RC were never shown in the U.S. back...
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