Don't know how I feel about this - Sony's History with the Columbia Movie and TV Library for the last 35 years, and the sloppiness of the studio's Assets management team as far as I'm concerned, is they should tend to their house first.
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Thankfully some of the 2-inch video tape stuff did survive elsewhere - UCLA has all of "Don Adam's Screen Test" - including the unaired pilot. Jack Benny's 10 color hour long specials survived, and were released on Time-Life, so those existed elsewhere. (May have never been...
In the U.S, The compilation of the Trickster episodes was released on VHS only. The other compilation of the Nightshade episodes wasn't released in the U.S. on VHS, but did get released on VHS in the U.K.
When they used a clip on THE FLASH during the "Crisis" cross-over a few years ago, they clearly used a SD clip from the series - wasn't even a FX clip, it was Tina talking to Barry - they could have found the 35mm raw elements in the vault for that one scene and transferred it to HD. All we got...
The vault that went up was a working vault for syndication for television, as well as used for 35mm theatrical prints for revival showings.
The reason we've not seen a lot of shows from MCA/Revue/Universal Television is they simply don't want to go into the MASTER VAULT (where everything is...
I can't see that AFFECTING any of the extras, except perhaps commentary of any living performer (Like Dick Van Dyke) most of the actor commentaries are archival, and they are dead.
KINO one of the last boutique labels, they should be honest with the fanbase on this - not hide behind...
Well, why would The current Universal (NBC/Comcast) care - that was TWO owners ago...but what if HIS estate is the one making the fuss - didn't Falk own a piece of the show?
Seems the price isn't coming down on this either, so I guess that might be why KINO has to recover the cost they spent on the extra we are not getting!
I've never seen a complete list of which existing shorts still have their music/fX soundtracks existing as well. Those interest me the most, as does the late Pathe era since few of those have been available. On a similar note, what ever happened to THE MISCHIF MAKERS episodes?
ParamountGlobal owns CBS, and CBS lays claim to all the Benny TV shows pre-1955, or something like that. After that it's Universal (MCA) and Jack's Estate.
How are the elements across the board for the available MGM era silents - the 1927-1929s? The shorts released with synchronized music and sound effects interest me greatly... that transition period.
Well, off the top of my head - reissues should include "Land of The Giants" (Which as I mentioned never had a budget release - just the box set with all the extras), and "Honey West" (Long out of print)
Around this time she was 34...She does pull it off...mostly...but Emmy Lou is supposed to be 16! :)
(Keep in mind the radio show was still on the air till the end of the 1953-1954 season as well - which means the TV show's first two seasons overlapped with the radio show's last two. I've not...
Just reissues - well...we could use an affordable reissue on "Land of The Giants" which never got a vanilla release domestically. If only Kevin Burns was still with us!
She ALMOST played Corliss Archer in the first live TV Version of the radio show which she starred on.. (She would have been late 20's at this point)...but for whatever reason, they must have thought she looked to old live - and she was replaced temporarily by the younger actress who played...
Aileen did a fine job - and I've seen the screen tests of all 3 girls up for the part from the final 9. (The "Locket Scene" With Albert Finney who did the screen test with the girls) - Robin Inigo (Who ended up getting cast as Duffy) overplayed it, and Angela Lee (Who got a small part as a...
40 years later ,and still the "Annie" bashing...sad, really. Fun little film. Blame all the missteps not on John Huston, but producer Ray Stark - he thought he could do BETTER with the material. Hey, if TCM felt it was worth showing at the festival in the spring this year - then it's a classic...
"Annie" deserved a 40th Anniversary 4K UHD stand-alone edition with extras and commentary by Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters. (Tim Curry isn't well enough to do commentaries these days, sadly) Darn it Sony, Give this film the respect it deserves in retrospect! :(
Every...
If I figure correctly, Spelling (both as an indie and for other companies like Columbia Pictures Television and ABC Films) and Universal Television made the most TV Movies in the history of TV Movies (and Universal had a half-decade start on Spelling...)
Paramount Television made a good number...
There is that myth about the Universal Fire AGAIN - Universal DID NOT lose any master prints of shows shot on 35mm - the "vault" that went up was a working vault, not the master vault. The tape transfers for syndication, and 35mm theatrical prints used for the revival circuit.
The reason...
You know, they just announced seasons 5 & 6 for DVD in September of this year - that's near HALF the series released.
Considering the release sked they are working on at the pass of releases, work had to have been done on these for some time before the releases.
What is disconcerting is it's...
Which cut did they use - there were some technical errors on the live broadcast, and when NBC reran it, they used some, if not all, of the taped dress rehearsal.
There's one Paramount I'd love to see - Henry Winkler's "The One and Only" (1978) directed by Carl Reiner (Between "Oh, God" and "The Jerk") - I don't think it ever got a DVD release...and come to think of it, was it ever on VHS/Beta?