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During the Turner ownership we made new elements of NORTHWEST PASSAGE from the original 3-strip negatives. As I remember, the answer print was excellent, and part of our arrangement with Eastman House was to supply them with a print. That must be what is referred to in this article.

I was working at the Oklahoma City branch of Universal Film Exchange when most of these were released. I haven't anything profound to say except they were BIG hits in that part of the country.

While at Turner, I supervised preservation work on film from the original 3-strip negatives. I don't know if the new video master was from the interpositive made then, or from the YCM negatives, but it is gratifying to see the compliments of the new video release.

With all of the suggestions, I didn't see anyone mention THE GRAPES OF WRATH. To me, this is possibly the best movie to ever come out of 20th Century-Fox.

So many of the classic comedies of the thirtys need an audience to enjoy. I can remember first seeing THE AWFUL TRUTH at the L.A. County Museum of Art when they had a weekly series curated by Ron Haver. My family and I all roared at Ralph Bellamy's comments about being from Oklahoma (also my...

TCM, and especially TCM On Demand thru Spectrum has this problem. This service needs some serious technical upgrading. On Demand programs are much less sharp than their direct broadcasts. Audio has a heavy hiss whenever there is no other sound going on.

Regarding KING SOLOMON'S MINES, the OCN was not involved in the GEH fire. The original photography was Technicolor MonoPack (actually Kodachrome) for the location sequences, and 3-strip for interiors shot in the studio. The difference in quality is obvious, and the MonoPack can never be of the...

I'm really glad to see that this has been properly remastered from the 3-strip Technicolor negatives. When we did the preservation on film, around 20+ years ago, for some reason it was a problem getting proper contrast. As I remember, this was not only the beginning of MGM using magnetic...

This is one of the films that got me interested in movie history. When I was in Jr. High we had 16mm cut-downs of a few of the MGM literary features, running about an hour, designed for classroom use. The storming of the bastille was most impressive. This especially when usually having a diet...

The MGM feature release schedule for 1956 shows HIGH SOCIETY as being "VV., PS"

No, it is too far back to remember such details. DM

Hello Bob, This great review on GOOD NEWS is a pleasure for me. As you will remember, I was VP of Film Preservation at the time that almost all of the MGM 3-strip Technicolor movies were recombined to modern interpositives, and this one was one of the greatest successes. I don't remember what...

I can confirm that the original negative of SHOP AROUND THE CORNER does exist. Many years ago, shortly after MGM arranged to deposit their surviving nitrate negatives with George Eastman House, a memo was circulated listing a large number of titles that had been destroyed. The MGM library...

I have been using a Netgear EX7300 for a year or so, purchased at Best Buy. My modem is on the south side of the house, where the wifi from outside enters. I had a problem with smart TV and computer in what was originally a bedroom, now is a TV room on the north side, with a hallway, den and...

Photographed in 3 strip Technicolor, so is superior to other movies mentioned that were shot in Eastman Color.