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  1. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Great Ziegfeld -- in Blu-ray

    One of the Rhino/That's Entertainment boxes of CDs has the complete recording Brice made for the film, and it's up on YouTube so at least you can hear it.
  2. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Great Ziegfeld -- in Blu-ray

    I watched this lately for the first time. The disc is beautiful. "Pretty Girl" is truly amazing. But some of the choices made in the movie are hard to understand now. That whole "ballet" near the end--what in the world was that about? And the most astonishing thing--they get Fannie Brice in...
  3. John Skoda

    Facts about Perspecta Stereophonic Sound

    Wow, thank you for these details! The confusing thing is, when I see Perspecta credited, I think this was a mono film and they needed to use Perspecta to make it stereo. The truth is the credit really only belonged on the optical prints. A Perspecta credit, in these cases, says nothing...
  4. John Skoda

    One From the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD

    So, it's 2 UHD discs and no regular blu-rays?
  5. John Skoda

    Facts about Perspecta Stereophonic Sound

    Aren't there some CinemaScope films that have the Perspecta logo in the credits (which is kind of confusing)? I'm thinking it sometimes shows up as a little logo near the bottom on the same title screen with the copyright notice. I just did a quick check of a few DVDs/Blus and I can't find any...
  6. John Skoda

    One From the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD

    Wow, this sounds amazing. Is it 4 discs, 2 UHD and 2 blu-ray?
  7. John Skoda

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection - in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Yes! Your player doesn't know some of the channels are empty!
  8. John Skoda

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection - in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Mine said that too. But checking the tracking, it arrived in the metro area this morning, so I should have it this week.
  9. John Skoda

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection - in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Wow. Just got the e-mail notice my box shipped today.
  10. John Skoda

    Press Release USHE Press Release: Oppenheimer (2023) (4k UHD Combo) (Blu-ray)

    Saw this in a very nice 70mm presentation (not IMAX) and liked it, but distinctly remember thinking afterwards that I didn't need to see it again.
  11. John Skoda

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World -- in Blu-ray

    The caption says the one on left is the stunt double, so she'd actually be appearing on camera, so her costume matches. The one on right is the stand-in, so she stood for lighting setups and wasn't on screen. Was probably more important her skin tone matched Ethel's than her costume.
  12. John Skoda

    Why is it becoming more difficult to obtain new 4k releases?

    Apparently Amazon does the same thing with physical media sometimes. I bought a new CD from Amazon a few weeks ago (not though a 3rd party, a regular Amazon purchase). When it arrived, the package said it was shipped to me from MovieMars.com, even though I'd never dealt with that company before.
  13. John Skoda

    Press Release BVHE Press Release: Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937) (4k UHD Combo)

    I was able to buy it at my local Best Buy today, although I had to get them to go in the back and find it. They're not good about getting the new stuff out on the shelves right away these days.
  14. John Skoda

    Pre-Order Oklahoma! (1955) Platinum Edition (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Adding to the confusion is the fact the Todd-AO version of OKLAHOMA! was distributed by one company (Magna with Goldwyn doing a reissue in the 1980s) but the 35mm version was distributed by someone else (RKO and then Fox after RKO dissolved, and then Goldwyn?). But the bottom line is the R&H...
  15. John Skoda

    Pre-Order Oklahoma! (1955) Platinum Edition (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    True--I just looked and it's on the CinemaScope version in the 2014 box too. But not on the Todd-AO. Strange.
  16. John Skoda

    Pre-Order Oklahoma! (1955) Platinum Edition (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    I don't think Goldwyn owns these two titles anymore. Goldwyn did have them for a while for sure, and the Amazon product listing mentions Goldwyn. But if you look at the 2014 Fox blu-ray R&H box, Goldwyn isn't mentioned there anywhere, nor is it mentioned on the box of the new package if you...
  17. John Skoda

    The Sound of Music on 4K Disc?

    The part I know is the soundtrack rights. What happened was, in my lay language, in the late fifties R&H formed "Rodgers and Hammerstein Records, Inc." which leased out the rights to the Broadway and soundtrack albums from their shows done from then on. So, record companies competed for the...
  18. John Skoda

    The Sound of Music on 4K Disc?

    No, what happened is the R&H Organization now has the exclusive rights to sell the soundtrack album from the movie. Disney, Fox, RCA, or Sony have nothing to do with those rights now, they belong completely to R&H. But that doesn't have anything to do with distribution rights to the film...
  19. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review Lullaby of Broadway Blu-ray Review

    I think they would have recorded a live track, but only as a guide to what they needed to replace in the final mix. But, you're right, that can't be what's here. It would have lousy-sounding playback of the music. A puzzlement. What I can tell you, though, is if the tap track is there on the...
  20. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review Lullaby of Broadway Blu-ray Review

    I just watched this tonight, and I think the "taps" overdub track is just missing from the audio. It seems to me what you're hearing in "Zing" is just the live audio without the taps. But look at this old clip from YouTube--the taps used to be there!
  21. John Skoda

    Movies shot without sound (dialog dubbed)

    It seems to me I read most of the dialogue in CAROUSEL and THE KING AND I was looped because the CinemaScope 55 cameras were so noisy. Since there's so much pre-recorded singing in the movies anyway it isn't so noticeable.
  22. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Is Paris Burning? -- in Blu-ray

    Yes. Paramount's old DVD has three audio tracks: English 5.1 surround, English Dolby Surround, and French Mono. The disc defaults to the 5.1.
  23. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review The Broadway Melody Blu-ray Review

    That's really true, come to think of it. If you film a chorus line from the front, all you see is mistakes where dancers are out of sync with each other. But if you film from another angle, you don't notice that so much. Heck, a lot of Busby Berkeley shots have dancers faces going by and...
  24. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review The Broadway Melody Blu-ray Review

    Just watched this today, and I agree it will never look better. The number that really surprised me was “Truthful Parson Brown.” Sure, there's no reason for it in the plot, but it comes across as some seriously good musicians sitting around, playing live, and performing for each other. Really...
  25. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review There Was A Crooked Man… Blu-ray Review

    Come to think of it, one of the funniest things in this movie is when the black house staff is in the kitchen intelligently assessing the situation, but then when it's time to serve the food, the housekeeper goes out with the tray of fried chicken and immediately starts rolling her eyes and...
  26. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review There Was A Crooked Man… Blu-ray Review

    Whether it was a good idea or not, the more modern filmmaking touches are intended. There's many things in the script you would have never seen in an older western, like homosexuality and making fun of racial attitudes. Even the artwork on the package, using the graphic from the original...
  27. John Skoda

    Blu-ray Review Song of Norway Blu-ray Review

    SONG OF NORWAY really depends on the quality of the presentation, doesn't it? With good visuals and hi-fi music, you can make it through. But can you imagine trying to watch it on TV (before HDTV) in pan and scan mono? Why would you bother? Without a quality presentation, there's very little...
  28. John Skoda

    3D Meet Bob Furmanek: HTF Golden Age 3-D Consultant

    Bob, any chance for stereo audio on this?
  29. John Skoda

    Biblical-Roman-Egyptian epics not yet on Blu-ray

    Glad to hear I'm not crazy. It certainly looked and sounded OK, but it wasn't a pristine new transfer at all. Not noticeably better than the DVD of some years back.
  30. John Skoda

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Dragonslayer -- in 4k UHD

    Really enjoyed seeing this movie again. Script is just right. Casting is perfect. Effects are still amazing. If you want to see how much the score adds to the movie, watch the trailer. I don't think that's North's music in the trailer, and without that the movie seems really boring. Add to...
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