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Speaking of bloopers and such, I found an interesting blooper in the "All About Eavesdropping" episode which concludes the second season: Clearly, the Petrie's kitchen set was revamped to serve as the Helper's living room for this episode. Because of this, there is one very brief shot of Rob...

It's open matte. While I would prefer OAR of course, there's no harm done on this title. I've saw the film theatrically in 1966 and again last year at UCLA and I've owned the full-framed laserdisc for years. It plays fine in full-frame. By the way, it's never looked or sounded better on home...

I watched the first few minutes of "Counsellor at Law" again last night to refresh my memory on the print quality. Gee, Bill, you're hard to please. While it's true that the source was not a fine-grain taken directly from the negative and digitally facelifted (a la 42nd Street), it is a...

Who knows why "The Love Trap" looks so nice? The film got a lucky break somewhere. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that it's a hybrid film like Universal's "Lonesome" (which I would kill to have on DVD). The nitrate didn't get trashed because it's a talkie. The nitrate didn't get...

I love to argue with you, Bill! Nothing wrong with that at all! Let's keep this thread alive so that others on the forum will be curious enough to want to check out "Love Me Tonight" and "Applause" when they arrive on the 25th. I'm not aware of any significant reissue of Applause over the...

I'm constantly amazed at the high quality video "spruce-ups" (I know Robert Harris would point out that most of these are not true film "restorations") we're seeing on DVD. How Warner managed to get "Little Women" looking as good as it does is amazing. Studio by studio, it's the ones who have...

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Apparently Kino tried to track down the missing footage for Love Me Tonight but to no avail. I've discussed this release at length with Miles Kreuger (and, in fact, alerted him the day this was announced by Kino, hoping in vain that he could track down a complete print from some European...

I'll toss out a few thoughts in what I agree is a most fascinating thread: I saw the print at the Dome twice and thought it looked terrific. A tad dark perhaps and the colors in the credits did not look at all like those on the laserdisc, but I had no complaint. The sound was played a bit too...

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An excellent source for examples of early Technicolor as it may have looked in the late 30s is Ronald Haver's excellent book entitled "David O. Selznick's Hollywood." In it are scores of frame captures from vintage prints of "Garden of Allah," "A Star is Born," "Nothing Sacred," "The Adventures...

Bill, Far be it from me to tell you what to buy and not buy, but I've seen "Sleeping Beauty" many times in 70mm (at the late, great Windsor Cinerama in Houston, at Long Beach's Widescreen Festival, and at Hollywood's El Capitan) and the DVD is about the best home video representation of that...

The thing to remember in any discussion about the proper "look" of Technicolor at any historical point is that one of Technicolor's biggest strengths was its flexibility in achieving any look the director and the director of photography wanted. It's entirely possible that "The Adventures of...

I've been curious about the look of 1930s Technicolor ever since reading Richard May's laserdisc insert piece explaining the 1989 restoration work performed on Gone With the Wind. Well, earlier this year at the Motion Picture Academy I finally got to see an original 1939 Technicolor nitrate clip...

I'll add Follow Thru The Love Parade Monte Carlo One Hour with You The Bitter Tea of General Yen Taxi Public Enemy Bad Girl Cavalcade Man's Castle The Power and the Glory Public Enemy

At the time I first listened to this commentary, I had no doubt Mr. Harris was referring to "The Wizard of Oz." The talk of reinserting the Scarecrow dance had classic film purists up in arms at a point when Warner Bros. was just beginning to put its stamp on the newly acquired holdings from the...

Why are you not expecting much? I've found Columbia/Tri-Star's DVDs to be major improvements over their hopelessly rotted, speckled laserdiscs. The Loves of Carmen looks spectacular on DVD. Too bad it's not half as good as Cover Girl.

I've seen "Hello Dolly!" on television and laserdisc several times over the years and always preferred the low-key non-musical "The Matchmaker" starring Shirley Booth. Dolly's many faults, which are obvious to anyone seeing the film, (key miscasting, lack of chemistry between the leads...

Most sources list "The Toll of the Sea" from 1922 as the first official two-color Technicolor feature film. There had been earlier processes used by Technicolor and other companies. In addition to its use in selected scenes within films like "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur", several features...

MGM bought the rights to Ben-Hur in the early twenties and made both versions. Even in the twenties, this was considered a pre-sold, surefire property (the stage play had already been a perennial hit for decades and the book was an early best-seller). So it's no wonder MGM lavished so much money...

I think it was shot full-frame. I saw it in a revival house back in the seventies in academy ratio and saw it a few years ago at the Cinerama Dome in 1.85:1. The full-frame laserdisc contains more information on the top and bottom and nothing is missing on the sides compared with the Canadian...

The only reason Singin' in the Rain didn't sweep the Oscars in 1952 is that it had the unfortunate luck to come out immediately after all the Oscar hoopla surrounding "An American in Paris". It was perceived as "An American in Paris II" because it was another Gene Kelly project with another...

Fifteen. Love that print...