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Amazon: 3 GODFATHERS was listed for arrival today when I pre-ordered it last week. Now they have no idea when it's coming. Hopefully it'll show up within a week's time, so buyers who took their word about the original promised arrival date won't be too annoyed.

"Rocket to Mars" is indeed available on Blu-ray, in the Warner Bros. Archives release of Popeye 1940s Volume Two. As a matter of fact, Popeye fighting the Martians and their Bluto-Like leader happens to be what's depicted on the Blu-ray cover. Gorgeous quality, by the way. Great Winston...

The version of CHAIN LIGHTNING TCM ran yesterday is also a disgrace... filled with scratches, cue marks, and other anomalies (including a weird white edge line on the right). A shame, since the recent WAC restoration of this title, scanned from the original negative, is absolutely glorious. No...

Original negative scan? Oh yeah! Can't wait...

So, if I understand the situation correctly, what has been "restored" so far (whether presented on HBO Max or TCM), is not up to the standards we've been getting lately from the WB Archives three-strip recombines. That means we must make due with what is currently available, even as we hope...

I'm assuming this restoration you're talking about was a three-Technicolor negative recombine, like all the amazing pre-1955 Tech. movies the WB Archives has been preparing of late. Is that the version TCM's been running recently? I'm also assuming that what Classic Flix is releasing next...

Sadly, Warners no longer reveals the tech specs for these classic releases. But RANCHO NOTORIOUS was clearly another three-strip Technicolor recombine, scanned from the three original camera negatives. That's why the luminous color, fine detail, and 'true black' aspects of the image are so...

You're right... I went through the same thing. I had ordered RANCHO NOTORIOUS on January 4, and was expecting a delivery this week, the week of release. Instead, when I went to look at my order yesterday, I'm told that RANCHO won't be coming my way until February 13th? February??! WTF! So...

Now that's a nice group of new titles. One question... wasn't THE LONG, LONG TRAILER shot in Ansco Color, rather than Technicolor? Maybe prints were processed in Technicolor IB, but if they're scanning from the negative for this BD release, shouldn't it be an Ansco Color experience? The movie...

QUO VADIS should look as amazing as WAC's recent IVANHOE, which is something of an MGM Euro/Robert Taylor companion film. It's the new process WAC has been using since 2020 that restores Technicolor IB-like dimensionality and "inner glow," a process QUO VADIS, released some years earlier...

I think you're right about all of the above... most importantly, your suspicion that the special recombine process is a "proprietary thing owned by Warner." When I first heard that the three original PHANTOM '43 negs had survived, and were being recombined for this new 4K release, I just...

I call them three-negative Technicolor Recombines, since they do digitally when the IB process did on celluloid with its three strips. And yes, the results are nothing short of magical... it's like having Tech. IB back again, but without stock change color shifts or registration issues.

Noted horror film historian Tom Weaver related this data in a different thread... The materials noted below were re-mastered at NBCUniversal StudioPost, Universal's on-lot mastering facility: BRIDE OF FRANK – 35mm Nitrate Composite Fine Grain Lavender from the Library of Congress THE MUMMY...

God bless! Here's to what makes us all different... and the same, since we're all lifelong movie buffs.

It's pretty much standard issue cocky Cagney, no question. Of course, when one considers the best films of Wayne and Ryan, FLYING LEATHERNECKS is far down at the bottom of those respective lists, as well. The one thing we can clearly agree on here is that both movies look absolutely...

Ha. I would! A waste of a fine cast, an exceptional director and nice production values, FN is typical of presenter Howard Hughes' flat Cold War movies from this period. It's said that director Nicholas Ray hated the material so much, he deliberately asked fellow progressive Robert Ryan to...

Yeah, it must have been annoying for film directors and cinematographers to have to deal with "alternate" visual creativity from Lady Kalmus. I believe, originally, Technicolor insisted that their films have the look of Renaissance paintings, with large areas of black enabling faces to stand...

Incidentally, from what I understand, it costs three times as much to do one of these Technicolor recombines, because three original negatives have to be scanned, as opposed to just one. We're damned lucky WAC is spending this much money on old movies with an aging fan base, although these new...

Actually, I believe he said these new three-negative recombines provide everything Technicolor IB had to offer, but are superior to projected prints, being direct negative scans rather than prints, with all registration issues corrected, no stock change color shifts, etc. Incidentally the...

...but these negatives were used to record color (see article), and when combined, provided the full spectrum, which was what made Technicolor so impressive. For years, the only way one could enjoy this experience was to watch a Technicolor IB print. Video involves different technology, with...

Even so, a plethora were not: THE PIRATE, THE HARVEY GIRLS, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, THE YEARLING, IVANHOE, THE GREAT CARUSO, SHOWBOAT, and others, are among the amazing new WAC releases that utilized the surviving three original Technicolor negatives for these astonishing...

So pleased these two upcoming releases are scanned from the original negatives. FIFTY FOOT WOMAN is an entertaining guilty pleasure, and THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA is a fine movie with some memorable performances, sharp John Huston direction, and wonderful b/w photography. Mr. Feltenstein...

Just out of curiosity, it might be interesting to compare the charts of dwindling video sales to charts showing us the dwindling sales of printed books vs. e-books, comparisons of how many people buy newspapers as opposed to reading them online these days, etc. In keeping with the "I'd rather...

I've always enjoyed RAINTREE COUNTY for the epic Hollywood pleasures it provides -- MGM's trying for another GONE WITH THE WIND in 1958, how exciting. But the problems with the film surely start with the story material itself. Setting a relationship scenario against the backdrop of the Civil...

Exactly... and that was my point. Technicolor IB prints offer all the pleasures we associate with the vivid Technicolor process, even if they are printed from an Eastman single-negative of a post '55 movie. It's IB that makes the major difference, in my opinion, even though the pre-'55 three...

What's confusing for people (it was for me) is that the distinctive Technicolor IB printing process continued way past 1955, finally ending in the mid-'70s for 35mm prints, around '70 for 16mm prints. IB, which pressed the three colors onto celluloid (and you would wind up with a b/w...

I can understand the emotional responses of classic movie buffs who have been over the moon with WB's original neg scans of b/w greats, along with these jaw-dropping, preternaturally astonishing three-strip Technicolor recombines. In comparison with the sledgehammer magnificence of say, PRIVATE...

I'd add Phil Karlson's HELL TO ETERNITY and Richard Wilson's PAY OR DIE! to your AA list.

I understood that significant technical advances were made since the earlier days of Ultra-Resolution, when first-tier classics like ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD were prepared. That's why the recent IVANHOE or ANNIE GET YOUR GUN or even FLYING LEATHERNECKS are getting jaw-dropping reactions. What...

...especially if it was remastered with the three-strip recombine process that replicates the look of dye-transfer prints (IVANHOE being the latest miracle along those lines). A Blu-ray equivalent included in that package would make the current BD, pretty as it is, completely obsolete. Do the...