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  1. Brent Reid

    Pre-Order The Big Country (1958) (Reissue) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Early morning post; I meant to say "junked" – now corrected. The point remains, despite repeated assertions, the score was recorded in three-channel stereo, as has been proven earlier in this thread and the one I linked to in my last comment. But, as was commonplace back then, those recordings...
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    Pre-Order The Big Country (1958) (Reissue) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Strange to see the "stereo" question being repeatedly rehashed, as it was the last time the film was discussed here and so often before. The original score recordings were in three-track stereo but junked after being mixed to mono. The film itself never had a stereo soundtrack; any claims to the...
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    TV shows and TV movies gone W I D E

    The widescreen HD remasters of Highway to Heaven have so far been released in complete US and German BD and DVD sets. Here are the relevant discussions on HTF and BD.com.
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    How's the PQ on Young and Innocent (1937) Blu-ray?

    Tact precluded me from going there but you're dead right. If anyone from the aforesaid companies wants to drop me a line, we can fix this! But returning to the original point of the thread, what we have is all we're getting for now, so buy away.
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    How's the PQ on Young and Innocent (1937) Blu-ray?

    Apart from Jamaica Inn, ownership of all the British Hitchcocks is split evenly between ITV Global and StudioCanal with 12 apiece. Their licensees in the US are Criterion and Kino Lorber respectively. It's churlish to criticise the generally excellent HD masters of Hitchcock's British talkies...
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    Lost Films Found

    There's an increasing tendency for folk here and elsewhere to use the widely accepted term "lost film" (no longer extant; not known to exist) when they really mean "unavailable" or, better still, "not easily accessible to members of the public." The only reason I can think of is that consciously...
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    Pre-Order Stage Fright (Warner Archive Collection) (1950) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    You're right: it is a fabulous piece and makes a very persuasive argument for Stage Fright. It was in the Fall 1970 issue. You're welcome. :)
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    Glorious Technicolor

    A DVDCompare whole site search indicates it isn't on any other listed releases.
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    Seen The 1959 Hercule's Threads - But does anyone really know who has the US rights to the film?

    Thank you. It may initially appear to be mumbo jumbo but I've studied it for many years and understand it perfectly. But it's really not that difficult: copyright laws may seem intimidating at first but once you decipher the legalese, they're actually quite straightforward. This especially...
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    Seen The 1959 Hercule's Threads - But does anyone really know who has the US rights to the film?

    This thread is a very frustrating read: there's so much speculation, much of it completely misinformed. Hopefully this will end it. I'm not going to quote individual posts but reply to various points raised since the beginning of this thread. Once again: as of today, 1st January, essentially...
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    RAINTREE COUNTY on Blu?

    As is the use of the phrase "colored people".
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    Seen The 1959 Hercule's Threads - But does anyone really know who has the US rights to the film?

    People are conflating two entirely different concepts: essentially, no post-1925, non-US works are public domain in the US – or anywhere else for that matter. This film belongs to somebody 100%; what remains to be seen is whether they claim(ed) their copyright and intend to enforce it.
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Number Seventeen – in Blu-ray

    Kudos for continuing to highlight the widespread piracy of Hitchcock's fully copyrighted British films but note The Pleasure Garden is not in the public domain. When it finally becomes so, at the end of this year, note too it only applies in the US and to silent copies of the two unrestored...
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    Pirate and Bootleg Blu-ray/DVD Documentation

    I'm certain that's nothing more than an anonymous Australian pirate. It's ripped from the US Warner Archive Collection 2017 region 0 reissue DVD-R as opposed to the 2009 region 1 pressed DVD issued in the TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection. I've encountered many very similar Oz DVDs that are...
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    Blu-ray Review HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: The Seventh Seal

    This is a commonly reported problem. There is no fix and as the fault didn't develop until years later, no corrected discs were issued. Criterion will send free replacements on request ([email protected]) but all stocks of the original disc are gone and they only have copies of their...
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