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I always found it interesting that 20th Century-Fox did not mount their famous logo/fanfare at the beginning of the movie. Yes, we all know IFM was a pick-up, but Twentieth Century-Fox is proudly spelled out in the IFM domestic end title, so the releasing company's involvement wasn't exactly a...

One could argue that the nightmare was precognitive, a psychic flash-forward of what was about to happen. The different sound of the landing saucer in the "real world" sighting at the end would support this notion. What David experienced in his psychic dream-vision was an abstraction of the...

Actually, the overweight mutant is followed by a skinny one... as kids, my cousin and I used to wait for the frequently repeated shot, then point and happily declare, "Here comes Fatty, followed by Skinny!" We'd also get frustrated that the ticker to the final demolition blast took forever...

Here's the famous landing shot as it appears in "The Joker's Flying Saucer." It may not be exactly the same shot as what we see in IFM, but it's pretty darn close. The other two shots are clearly stock images that did not appear in IFM...

Damned good indeed.

Fascinating, guys... thank you! I still get a headache thinking about all this... that all-important asterisk regarding opticals keeps you wondering (e.g., do original camera negatives of Ray Harryhausen movies contain his animated creatures?), but I truly appreciate the various technical...

Thank you, sir. The replacement of the single missing "saucer landing" fx shot is one thing, replicating duped material throughout, including standard dissolve shots, is another. Related question: If dissolves, fades, titles, etc., are added after a movie is shot, then the "OCNs" video...

I honestly didn't detect much of a difference between the duped fx footage and the rest of the film, although I know many viewers who have. And what are we really talking about, specifically? For the record, some original material was cut and re-used in "The Joker's Flying Saucer" episode of...

It's true that some shows and movies were indeed broadcast in color during the '50s. But it wasn't until 1966-1967 that color TV sales exploded, coinciding with all three networks going 100% color. Most of us kids started watching BATMAN and STAR TREK in b/w, but by the time these shows...

It was used for both the Blu-rays and the 4Ks. Peeled four of these sealers away with no problem, top and bottom, re-closed them without difficulty, then re-opened them later last night. So it wasn't an issue for me; these sealers functioned as they were supposed to, with no damage to the...

The color showings on Channel 9, if they ever happened, would have occurred in the early 1980s. I'm really not sure if that happened. I AM sure that Channel 9 ran UNKNOWN ISLAND in Cinecolor -- once -- in a weekday 4:30 movie slot (SCIENCE FICTION THEATER?) circa early '70s. After that one...

I honestly don't remember. Sorry!

I got a button pin in one box; the other one was pinless...

I had my share of GODZILLA nightmares as well. Since this was early '60s, it was the scary b/w GOJIRA that was inexorably finding his way into Brooklyn... and eventually, somehow, my driveway! BTW, both the IFM 4K and the Blu-ray arrived this morning, in separate packages, one poster per...

INVADERS FROM MARS premiered on New York's WNBC's MOVIE FOUR at 5 pm on a Friday in 1959. It was a b/w print, of course, but that was okay, because no one had color sets in the early '60s. The film jumped around after that, eventually winding up on WPIX-TV's CHILLER THEATRE in the late '60s...

I'm a little confused here... the OCN "works beautifully," but "dupes are still dupes." Scanning from the original negative is the equivalent of a dupe? Please forgive me for not grasping this technically, but I thought an original was one thing, and that a dupe was at least a generation...