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We were talking about the approach not if Kim Kardashian producing this will draw more attention to Liz Taylor. I am sure it will and if it helps us to get more of her movies released on Blu-ray or even 4K Blu-ray I am all for it. Edit: Apparently Kim Kardashian also conducted the last...

I read right over the title to the name of the producer and THAT should make you even more concerned. But at least under these circumstances expectations are kept in check.

If Warner is really busy with 80 Days I would already be happy if it was: 2022: Grimm 2024: 80 Days 2026: Raintree County Of course I won't complain either if things move faster but one of these rather problematic titles every two years would already be much more than I had expected in 2021...

Excellent idea, I only wish you had made this post before everybody had already spent their money on Christmas gifts!

They certainly are in a position to make very good use of it and I am sure that the first thing that they will do is to scan the assets that are most in need and before it becomes even more difficult to work on them. Plenty of older 65mm productions that warrant attention. I left out the names...

Thanks for the insight and your help! And just as a reminder: Please make sure to mention Raintree County to George the next time you see him ;)

At least it tops their "70mm movies that were not even released on DVD" list.

Actually they shot Leo the Lion in Camera 65 and it is a bit hard to tell if they are holding that test film. Here we can see that he may have come to work late on that day so they started filming without him: Courtesy of the great Widescreen Museum site of the late Marty Hart, more about it...

Don't leave us hanging like that, you must have a few stories to share about her being in Raintree County :)

Clearly the opening title art was created for a wider aspect ratio and not protected very well. For Fall of the Roman Empire they did a better job with less obvious cropping even though the title art was also made for a 2.76:1 aspect ratio.

George Feltenstein is the man who wants to make it happen and it looks like he is not only paying lip service to the "rabid fanbase" that he also mentioned in July 2022 :) It cannot be overstated that they have now in-house capability to scan 65mm which will also help a lot so several steps...

Only this time the first release might be a longer lower quality roadshow version mainly derived from 35mm prints/elements and that would possibly be followed by a short version derived from the 65mm negative and hopefully a version where the 35mm parts that are missing in the 65mm elements...

When the studio has an SD master I will be happy with a DVD. When they have something better and have been dragging their feet for decades I expect more than a DVD especially from a large format movie that will have many shots that simply lack fine detail even on a good DVD. Obviously this will...

Indeed it doesn't look like it, they have different priorities.

I doubt that too many people would be happy to get a DVD when Warner has a master that looks substantially better than a DVD. With how long this has taken and with the standards at the Archive being the way they are there is no satisfactory solution for this any more except to get going with...

In my opinion that would have been a perfectly fine release at a time when Warner released Battle of the Bulge and Mutiny on the Bounty but that was more than 15 years ago for those releases on HD-DVD. It has more texture than Mutiny on the Bounty and less edge enhancement than Battle of the...

The 35mm roadshow is what was intended when it was released. It would also cost a fraction of what it would cost to work on the 65mm elements and it is even possible that these faded prints have been scanned already when Warner received them so there may be digital assets that Warner could work...

I find it depressing that the roadshow version of Raintree County should only be available in that kind of quality. I know they will not do it but if Warner were to release a bare bones Blu-ray derived from scans of those 35mm roadshow prints with state of the art color correction and some...

Thanks for posting this and yes it has the standard Eastman color - don't feel guilty about that! The framing is interesting as there is no added picture information on the sides compared to the scope prints but instead some additional top and bottom cropping: source...

I did not want to go into too much detail but in scenes with high frequency information there were some very bad combing artefacts in motion when it was available on FilmStruck for a while so it clearly was an interlaced master and George Feltenstein has confirmed this. If there were no...

They could of course do it but why now? Up until 2010 not too many would have complained about the quality but today it would be an issue. That would be a pretty modest 1080i release that would be slightly better than The Greatest Story Ever Told or Fall of the Roman Empire but not by much and...

I mentioned a scan of the complete print as it could result in a relatively low cost release of the roadshow version without having to tackle the 65mm elements. Later down the road they could release a no holds barred version derived from the best 35 and 65mm elements and I agree that it would...

To make a long story short this is not how Warner operates. I like your release print idea but with todays technology we can also get decent results from those faded roadshow prints. To get an idea have a look at this festival brochure here...

He must think that a few rabid posters are responsible for most posts and possibly also for most of the views...

Interesting takeaways from the George Feltenstein podcast regarding Raintree County: Warner still has two faded 35mm roadshow prints that they bought from a collector. Contrary to some other information that had been posted elsewhere MGM has definitely discarded the 65mm parts that were cut...

Talk is cheap - much cheaper than a restoration of Raintree County. Not blaming George Feltenstein here who I am sure would love to tackle Raintree County but the high cost of the project has obviously held it back for a very long time now.

No problem, just wanted to check in case I was too dumb to find it on the labyrinthine TCM site. Maybe it was an older ad for it somewhere that wasn't taken down.

Couldn't find it - do you have a link?

Impossible to get a properly illuminated picture on those even with 70mm, probably best to watch Cinerama movies on them- In any case indoor screens rarely got much wider than 100 feet and to have a 180 feet screen showing a Cinerama movie must have been a sight even thought he audio in most...

I know that you did not make it up but it is really strange they would say that - I guess it would not have been so easy to search the internet back then to find out that this was not even true for the UK! 52ft is still a very substantial screen and at that screen size one would have the...