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Sometime around 45 years ago I saw the MOMA nitrate of Greed. It was beautiful and the movie made a big impression on me. A decade or so later I saw on TV the TCM “restoration” which added an hour or so of stills and original inter titles to restore the story as closely as possible to the...

Thank you. I ask in part because I recently bought the Spanish Blu Ray of Song of the South on Amazon. It doesn't have Japanese subtitles for the songs like the Japanese Laserdisc, and I would guess it was mastered from one of the Buena Vista release prints of the early 1970s, before it was...

How do the French and Spanish Blu Rays of The Black Swan compare with the long out of print Fox Blu Ray version? Are they authorized copies of the same master, or are they different transfers made legally in countries where the film is now public domain due to different copyright laws?

I have several pair, so I would be happy to see old 3D photos on a Johnstown Flood disc, but if there were also a menu option for watching just the 3D images in proper blue ray 3D, that would be great. But anaglyph is better than nothing, and could be an alternate option for those without 3D...

It is my recollection that in addition to the shortened 1938 and original 1931 versions, that there was also a European version eliminating the prologue and consisting of different takes, and that the European version was more widely available and not considered to be "lost". Is this correct or...

Back in the late 1970s or early 1980s I saw a Nitrate of Our Town at the American Film Institute Theatre. I don't know where it came from but it was quite wonderful to see and experience and I loved the Aaron Copland score. A couple nights ago I watched it on Amazon Prime with my wife, who had...

Looking over some earlier comments it would appear that when issued a couple years ago, the Theatrical version of South Pacific was on Blu ray and the Roadshow version was on DVD. It has been upgraded now and the 4 disc set I bought in spring 2022 now includes both DVD and Blu ray versions of...

I read some of the earlier comments in this thread about 3-D. I have a memory of seeing Invaders from Mars in 3D at the American Film Institute theatre in the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC. I would infer that my memory of 3D must be incorrect and that I have it confused with something else...

Perhaps what Mr. L'abbate meant by saying "latent" is that Technicolor negatives are black and white records of the color information, but exhibit no color in and of themselves. When used to make a print in light or color, the color is revealed but no color is visible looking at the black and...

Thanks for the reply. One of the things I have always loved about Technicolor IB prints is that blacks are much deeper and blacker than on color film prints. From what you say it would appear that the early dyes needed the G record to improve the blacks since the YCM dyes by themselves were...

I bought both the Kino and Warner Star Is Born blu rays, not because it is a film I was especially eager to own, but because it presented a possibly unique opportunity to compare an excellent transfer from a Technicolor Nitrate print and a harvest from the OCN records. I have also been trying...

Sorry to hear that. If it were a legal clone, I was tempted to buy it, but a lossy dupe bootleg, no thank you. I guess I will just have to keep looking for a modestly priced Twilight disc or hope someone reissues it legally somewhere in full rez sound and picture. I once saw a gorgeous...

The Twilight disk is long out of print. Is the Spanish import Region ABC import blu ray the same transfer or of comparable quality?