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The Paramount’s official blu-ray trailer is on Amazon.com website or below this paragraph which shows the very same scene as your 35mm slide screen grab (hit 'play' and look for it at around 9 seconds into the presentation). As you can see, there is more image information on blu-ray than your...

Quote: Well said, Adam.

Amen to that, Mr. Harris. It’s beyond me several people on here just can’t understand something as logical as this. Obviously, their mind has set to whatever they wish to believe. This particular thread reminds me of some sort of religious thread, really, but can be quite interesting to observe...

Eric – Those were sweetened -and enhanced - a few times over the course of decades of multiple re-releases under several hands of different mixing engineers.

Quote: That vintage 35mm dye transfer reduction print of The Sound of Music was made around 1967, actually, and was approved by Mr. Ted McCord (the cinematographer). It’s a legitimate source for color and density reference for the recently struck 70mm print that Mr. Robert Wise saw not too...

Lidenbrock, My pleasure! Regarding the soundtrack CD, I’m afraid I don’t have any real firsthand knowledge on that matter but I do know that when RCA Victor Records’ sound engineers prepared the soundtrack way back in 1965 they applied their very own EQ and also added some electronic echoes on...

Mike, I wish I could tell you but it's confidential. ;)

Eric, You're most welcome.

Eric, All I can say is that particular sound effect you mentioned is not that loud in the original 6-track film master in the first place. Over the years - and numerous re-releases - some versions might have been re-mixed in louder volume than others

Mr. Harris is right. Also, I should add that the original 6-track print master of The Sound of Music, the source for the new hi-def, lossless, 7.1 DTS-HD sound mix was in dismay condition, so much so that first considered to be unplayable due to severe acetate shrinkage, physical damage and...

Lidenbrock, you are very welcome.

Hi Brian, I wish I could tell you further and/or identify the source for verification but, unfortunately, it's strictly confidential. Let's just just say I haven't just read, been told or making things up. I don’t know if this answer will satisfy you but that’s all I can tell, at least for the...

Everyone involved had to hold thier breath when they created that new IP from the very fragile original camera negative. They decided not to touch the original negative again for the time being and chose to work from that IP for this blu-ray edition. Oh, I should add that the new IP was created...

You may try to say this to Francis Ford Coppola and his cinematographer Gordon Willis on thier work and color scheme on "The Godfather" and let's see what they might respond to you. The late cinematographer Mr. Jack Cardiff also often prefer his works to look very warm, to name but a few.

The original negative of The Sound of Music is too fragile it's not worth the risk at this point in time.

Mr. McCord the cinematographer shot this particular movie with gelatin filter No. 81B in front of the camera lens most of the time to create a specific warm, golden, looks.

No offence, Sir, but I only wish some experts out there could be as open-minded, gracious and dignify as the no-nonsense film expert Mr. Robert A. Harris. At least he never being brash or imposes his way on anyone time and again without end. Besides, I never address any specific individual by...

Dear all, I didn't mean to target or "slam" anyone in particular. My apologies if it came across that way.

With all due respect to everyone here, I guess for some people they try their best to find false of everything perhaps to tame their inferiority complex and boost their ego. As incredible looking as The Sound of Music on blu-ray is - and to me, along with the majority of posters on this forum...

No offence (and with due respect) but I think those who loathe this beautifully restored hi-def transfer blu-ray edition of The Sound of Music and prefer the previous DVD edition(s) or even laserdisc(!) that are plagued with excessive edge-enhancement, blurry, low-resolution hazy image infused...

"Salzburg:Sight & Sound" featurette is now in HD actually. It appears to be a brand new transfer & it looks quite beautiful.

Blu-ray.com has their reveiw up and they gave this blu-ray edition a perfect score, both picture & sound. Here is the link: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Sound-of-Music-Blu-ray/13695/#Review

I agree with Mr. Harris on the skin tones issue of this blu-ray transfer. From the DVDBeaver screen caps, the flesh tones indeed looks way too cyan-blue it makes everyone on screen looks unhealthy and sick. Perhaps the colorist responsible for the grading of this blu-ray edition is color blind (?)

Brian, I had a chance to attend a screening of vintage 35mm dye-transfer reduction print that was approved by Ted McCord (the cinematographer) years ago which gave me an idea of the looks of The Sound of Music in term of its intended color-timing and density. From the DVDBaver screen captures...

It will be on tomorrow (Thursday, October 28th), not on Friday the 29th. Confirmed. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/27/oprah.sound.music.ppl/

Most early Cinemascope films had separate 4-channel soundtrack on separate full-coated 35mm magnetic film that ran in synchronize with the film projector on separate sound reproducer machine, that's why those early Cinemascope prints had no soundtrack printed on the film thus were shown in full...

From the DVD Beaver captures, it looks like they restored the beautiful golden hues back into the film in this blu-ray edition the way cinematographer Ted McCord intended that was unfairly absented - and bleached out - in all previous home video incarnations. My hats off to FotoKem restoration...

The art of color-timing is very important in every color motion picture. When it's done right, everything comes to a perfect sense. This blu-ray edition is a prime example. It is a very beautiful high-def transfer.

I agree with the post #26, with all due respect to Mr. Harris, when projected my vintage 8mm home movie copy of this film at the same size as my HDTV screen, the 8mm film edition has a little less grain than this blu-ray edition... My HDTV is calibrated, by the way. I don't use any of the...

Removing color filters from this film can be done nowadays via digital color correction. Here is an example I found on Youtube. I do not own the video, however.