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    All Quiet on the Western Front to be released as a 6 disc ultimate set in November

    1.33 I just got this set in the mail. Haven't watched it yet, but the packaging is great. First class set.
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    Restoring The ‘Mutt & Jeff’ Cartoons For Blu Ray - Kickstarter

    The Fleischer... UCLA generally credits the organizations that financed the photochemical restoration on a head title card. You've followed the formatting of their card on your tail credit on Somewhere In Dreamland, but I think you've left off some of the credits. I don't remember specifically...
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    Restoring The ‘Mutt & Jeff’ Cartoons For Blu Ray - Kickstarter

    You should include UCLA's credits as well. They put them on the head of the film.
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    Restoring The ‘Mutt & Jeff’ Cartoons For Blu Ray - Kickstarter

    Even if you are working directly with two, you are working with more. For instance several Fleischer films were restored by UCLA with funding for the photochemical restoration from ASIFA-Hollywood. The films at UCLA have a title card at the head that lists the organizations responsible for...
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    Restoring The ‘Mutt & Jeff’ Cartoons For Blu Ray - Kickstarter

    And remember to give credit to everyone else whose work contributes to yours... The Library of Congress, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, ASIFA-Hollywood, Serge Bromberg, archives like Cineteca Bologna... It's a group effort by a community. It isn't just one person saving the world like...
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    Restoring The ‘Mutt & Jeff’ Cartoons For Blu Ray - Kickstarter

    It doesn't work like that. People like me who support Thunderbean, Cartoons on Film, and the various rare silent films that turn up on Kickstarters aren't looking for the "best" disk. We know that hundred year old films aren't going to look perfect. One transfer might be better for one thing and...
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    Restoring The ‘Mutt & Jeff’ Cartoons For Blu Ray - Kickstarter

    AnimationResources.org has contributed to your project.
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    Thunderbean Ub Iwerks Blu

    You don't have to pre-order. You can wait for the official discs until they are released. The advance orders finance the transfers and restoration. No one else is interested in doing this. So Steve's one man show is all there is. If the wait ever gets too long, just submit a request though the...
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    Thunderbean Ub Iwerks Blu

    Stop Motion Marvels has shipped. Amazing puppet animation you would never be able to see otherwise. I got my copy this week. The special discs are grab bags on a theme. Rarely seen films from all over. As Steve runs across rare film prints, he does a quick film transfer to document them. The...
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    Disney Club Interesting statement ---- does it mean????

    They're talking about Bacchus getting drunk and frolicking with girl centaurettes and ghost witches' tits.
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    hitler's hollywood

    I found it fascinating. So many films I had never seen or heard of before! But the Caligari doc was even better. Well worth importing.
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Haunting (1999) — in Blu-ray

    Spielberg produced it. And it has his fingers all over it.
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Haunting (1999) — in Blu-ray

    Same same. The thing about Clayton's movie is that Truman Capote's script added a very sophisticated layer of ambiguity. The plot isn't what is really happening. There is something going on under the surface that is just referred to obliquely in whispers. You never know if what you are seeing is...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Haunting (1999) — in Blu-ray

    I'm thinking that the new Netflix Haunting of Bly House is to Jack Clayton's The Innocents as this Haunting remake is to Wise's version. Shifted emphasis to all the wrong things.
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    That's Entertainment

    Do you think the archive version is just a re-release of the original blu-rays, or did they cut in stuff that has been remastered since? That might make the quality even more variable, albeit in the right direction.
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations - in Blu-ray

    I have thousands of blu-rays now, and I can only think of a few that I looked at and returned because they weren't a decent presentation of the film. How many have you returned? I find that the big limitation for quality in blu-rays is the condition of the elements, not the digital mastering. A...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations - in Blu-ray

    I always find it's interesting when people criticize stuff for not being perfect enough, when it's clearly better than anything that's ever come before. If you cared, wouldn't you talk about how much better it is, rather than talk about how you could have done better? Sure, everyone wants things...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations - in Blu-ray

    I've got the other blu-ray release of The Very Best of L&H. It will be interesting to compare the two transfers side by side.
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations - in Blu-ray

    I think the problem is that Robert is judging these without having seen how they have been presented in the past. These films were in heavy distribution on TV for a long time, and they changed hands several times. Anyone who has followed them over the years has seen weird aspect ratio crops...
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    The Keep (1983)

    I screened this on my projection system. It's anamorphic and the image quality is very good. The sound mix is inconsistent, but it always was. I think it never got a real final mix because they were too busy pulling it apart and putting it back together again up until the film was released. The...
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    Home Theater Forum Bookmarks

    My bookmarks to the forum are coming back "Server Not Found". I thought the site was down for almost a week, then tried the main page and found it. If you can do redirects, you should.
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    Would you buy a Cleopatra: Director's Cut?

    Usually in situations like that they pull underscore from other parts of the film and reuse it in the scenes without underscore.
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    DVD Review The Complete Hal Roach Streamliners Collection: Volume 1 DVD Review

    I've never seen these, but that lukewarm summation to the review was kind of what I expected. I wish they would release the better stuff from the Roach library... in particular "Fiesta" 1941. I'd be interested in seeing the Taxi Boys and the Edgar Kennedy shorts too.
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    Still no sign of Let It Be on Blu?

    So the box will have "Get Back" AND "Let It Be"? Will that box have blu-ray audio too, or will that be another box?
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    Do you curate your large blu-ray collection?

    I am the founder of a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization serving film makers. My collection is the primary library for our organization. We have been digitizing and building an archival database to contain it all. We are up to nearly 200 TB now. EDIT: I see I posted to this thread a...
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    GREAT MOVIES from 1970-2000 still MIA on Blu-ray

    The one I really want is Day of the Locust. It's one of the best dark Hollywood movies and got shoved aside because it came out at the same time as Nashville. The DVD of it is pretty crummy. It really deserves better.
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    Win a copy of The Ten Commandments Special Edition Blu-ray Digibook

    I think they should do a mashup where Chuck Henson parts the Red Sea and then says "Damn dirty apes!" and closes it on a gorilla army.
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    Laurel and Hardy Restorations Coming to Blu Ray and DVD

    They've moneyed with the "current" version of Me And My Pal. It isn't running at 24 fps. It looks like a bad pulldown or a messed up PAL conversion. There is frame dropping going on. I'm sure these restorations look great and are huge improvements. I don't know why they feel the need to put...
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