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Josh Steinberg said the same thing and a lot of people agreed with him. I took another look at Jack the Giant Killer again last night. A very nice restoration. The animation effects in that film were created by the same team that worked on Brothers Grimm, and it was released the same year...

It is not my intention to criticize, I would rather voice concerns ahead of time than after the fact. I mean no disrespect. I too am excited to see the restoration. However I feel there's a line that can be crossed where restoration gives way to 'improvement', and modification of the original...

I would think there are few surviving members of the cast and crew who could speak more authoritatively . I'm not convinced that it has: Well I hate to be disagreeable, but I dispute the notion that adding motion blur to vintage stop-motion is a case of 'had to". Maybe that's going to be an...

Two points I would like to express before this comes out: 1) It seems that some sort of digital motion-tweening or motion-blurring effect has been applied to the puppetoon sequence, apparently to smooth out the stop-motion animation. Presumably this may have been applied to the dragon...

I don't know if anyone has addressed this, but there is a motion blur on some of those elves that isn't there in the before image. Perhaps it is not the exact frame, but as some will be aware, motion blur was rarely applied on stop motion in the 1950s and 60s. This looks more like a digital...

You read the thread, you'll find the reasons. ...Which is basically nothing that ever stopped David Strohmaier when he was restoring Cinerama films from damaged or imperfect elements. Of course there is the one reason that would; WB ! It's a wonderful, magical, memorable film. It's stayed...

There's never any clear way to know just what it is about a film that draws the crowds. Format novelty? Production quality? Subject matter? Star power? Special effects? It's always going to be a combination of factors. My guess would be that there may have been a ceiling to the amount of...

The fact that it's with WB I would think. If it belonged to Cinerama 100%, I expect they would have worked with David Strohmaier and done everything conceivable to get it done to the highest possible standard on an appropriate budget, and I would guess it'd probably outsell every other Cinerama...