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True dat.

John Wayne's The Alamo is obviously "dead in the water" at this point. I think our comments henceforth should be on what to rename this thread. So far, I've come up with "MGM Says: Remember Forget The Alamo!"

I have no doubt it would be a big seller; here in Texas especially.

Adrian, they still show the IMAX Alamo film in San Antonio at the River Center IMAX. The theater is very near the Alamo. My wife and I walked to the Alamo from the theater. The film is called ALAMO-THE PRICE OF FREEDOM. It's actually pretty impressive, and uses the Bracketville set. Because it...

Too bad the Bracketville location has shut down. I always wanted to visit the set to see what the Alamo looked like in 1836 (I've been to what remains of the fort in San Antonio several times). However, as I live in the Houston area, Bracketville is a long way to travel to a remote location...

Wow. What a shame that film fans are more willing to spend money on this than the studios. Is there any other medium other than film in which the rights holders and producers are so cavalier about their past glories?

I have never had that problem with the laserdisc of The Alamo or any other laserdisc. I record them to a DVD recorder, though.

To each his own, I guess. It just seems to me to undermine the seriousness of the siege situation in that they can have a birthday break "with cake for everybody!" when they should be dodging shot and shell (and conserving what stores they have). Also, I thought the little girl (Wayne's...

Actually, I thought the entire "birthday party" scene was pretty cringe-inducing. That is one bit of "found footage" that I wish had stayed lost. I need to record my laserdisc to DVD-R. I think I'll isolate that scene with chapter stops to make it easy to bypass. Yep, soundtrack albums at least...

Richard, the Criterion Othello was one of their great special editions, along the lines of their LDs of Kane and Ambersons. Visually, I'd say they look more or less the same; but the Image edition got a little cute and redubbed the music for the film. The thing is, there is really nothing wrong...

I'm down to my backup player. I had a good Pioneer that flipped sides automatically. It also had an optical digital output and could do DTS (and AC3 with a demodulator which I had). One day, the player would no longer power on. Now I am down to an RCA with almost no bells and whistles other than...

I only had that issue if the disc had developed "laser rot". The hour-per-side was worth putting up with for better image and sound. Laserdiscs had stereo before VHS did (and VHS stereo was crappy linear track stereo in the beginning), and lserdiscs were into OAR to a much greater extent than...

Still it was read by a laser beam. VHS actually had to pass over tape heads, which subjected the tape to wear, and would produce streaks, dropouts, etc. This was largely absent with laserdiscs. The Alamo was a digital sound laserdisc. I think it was also released as an AC-3 disc.

AFAIK, no one is working on a fan edit of The Alamo. However, after reading RAH's remarks, the outlook for the actual film appears to be bleak. I only mentioned fan edits after all the attention the Star Wars edits have been getting. It would be great if someone who is very good at this sort of...

Looks like the best version of Wayne's The Alamo will have to be a fan edit of the DVD and laserdisc along the lines of adywan's Star Wars edit.

I need to record my roadshow laserdisc to DVD, too. I guess a worst-case scenario release could be seamless branching with the low-res laserdisc master used for the new content only. I should think the final result would be rather like watching the Pioneer 1776 laserdisc that used scratchy...