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My vote is for Garbo's final Silent The Kiss (1929 MGM) with its amazing Art Deco interiors, and where she's at the height of her considerable powers before being forced to master English.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cobra-Woman-Blu-ray/253490/#Review TLDR - they loved it

Does anyone know if this is the same transfer of Cobra Woman that was used in the German Blu-ray? Which I own, and which looks fine. Note also that there is a UK Blu of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944 Universal) which I purchased several years ago, and think looks fantastic. As usual, I'm...

Been waiting for this one in HD for years and years. I mean it got "only" 6 Academy Award nominations, and won "only" 5 of them...

More fun with Pre-Code scenes - And - acres and acres of Keeler!! Ruby meets M. C. Escher - from Dames (1934 Warner) -

Trailer posted by Warner Archive -

:emoji_musical_score:"He's been looking high, and he's been looking low, looking for his Shanghai Lil":emoji_musical_score: Warner Archive has posted a clip of most of the number on YouTube in - wait for it! - full 1080 - and it looks amazing. The close-ups of Keeler are diffused. Includes...

...and speaking of 1954 in CinemaScope, Disney STILL hasn't released 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on Blu yet!?!

I've always wondered what the fate was of MGM's 3-strip Technicolor OCNs; no idea if they were more likely to take any care of them. Presumably its all over the place <_<

Until they printed The Gang's All Here :3dglasses:

Day in 3-strip Technicolor - but only "Calamity Jane" is available on Blu :angry: Romance on the High Seas (1948) My Dream Is Yours (1949) It's a Great Feeling (1949) Tea for Two (1950) Lullaby of Broadway (1951) On Moonlight Bay (1951) April in Paris (1952) By the Light of the Silvery...

It was shot in Super35, so they have a lot to work with.

The screen-caps posted on bluray.com look just amazing considering this process, although not surprisingly you can see the registration struggling a bit in some shots. Its really startling sometimes to see what's always been there slumbering on the OCN (or close to), waiting to be revealed...

By any chance did the restoration start from B&W separations?

...and speaking of Hermes Pan, high on my Technicolor Blu-restoration wish-list is Betty Grable's Pin Up Girl (1944 Fox) where he really cuts loose in the "Once Too Often" number.