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Looks like you made the right choice of seeing the good stuff yourselves before you worked there :) It is very often the same pattern: 50s/60s in 70mm and cinerama, 70s downhill and from the 80s onwards the majority of the big roadshow cinemas got ripped down, in Berlin for example all the 3...

In what timeframe did you work there, did you still get to project 3-strip cinerama and first run 70mm productions ? You must have great memories of that time!

I strongly recommend to see it in a theater - or at least on a big home theater screen. There is so much little stuff going on in the frame most of the time and here is so much to see that it is very beneficial that it was shot at such a leisurely pace. I always found it a pleasure to look at...

I think what they might have meant was that with the financial means that Warner had at their disposal they could have done a better job for the same amount of money or a similar quality job for less. Or to put it another way: With the budget that Warner had for How The West Was Won they would...

TJPC and Mark-P - thank you very much! Off to listen to the podcast that contains information about Ride the High Country.

When we get Ryan's Daughter on Blu-ray it hopefully will be a nice upgrade even though I agree with you - Grimm and Raintree County have last been released on LD while Ryan's Daughter can be streamed in pretty good HD quality so the other two would be much more welcome in some decent HD version...

Correct, savings are possible but ultimately elements that are in worse shape will be more costly to work with and this probably holds true for all three titles that you mention. Savings would still be there as a 2k workflow is always less costly than a 4k workflow with everything else being...

I agree with what you say except for the topic of streaming. I am not so sure that Warner actually plans to do more than release the HD master they use for the streaming version of Ryan's Daughter. There are a number of issues with streaming that come down to reproducing the finest detail and...

Well I have not listened to any of those podcasts - are they still online for a re-run, especially the one where George Feltenstein speaks of perfection? In any case it is fantastic that somebody like George Feltenstein has been working with Warner Brothers catalog titles since the LD days -...

The point is that they deliver that kind of quality at a relatively low cost as they do NOT go all out financially and still as you say just about everybody liked it. They COULD also do good but much less costly work for some of the aforementioned movies without breaking the bank but obviously...

Great to hear about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - I knew about the others but missed this one.

Warner never said anything to the effect that everything they release has to be perfect. A perfect (no pun intended) example of this is the Warner Archive Blu-ray of Ride the High Country that I would not call it perfect but very nice. It is a 2k scan from an IP and in an ideal cost no object...

There is always a number of bootlegs on just about all Amazon sites worldwide so I am not sure how many more would be sold on DVD now that just about everybody already got his DVD fix ;) Quite interesting that there is such a high number of these which seems to indicate that there is some...

They have a much better quality HD master for Around the World in 80 Days so I would strongly vote to release that one as a Blu-ray. As for Raintree County I think that Warner should be able to give us more than an old LD era master on a DVD-R, for me that would indeed be a case of too little...

Yes it is a bit difficult to be in a position that Warner is in here but a simple low budget release like Ice Station Zebra is fine if the alternative is to have nothing and you will notice that there was little to no criticism for that release. Just hold your horses on the sharpening and noise...

Overall I think that Warner has a great track record with their classic releases but their track record for releases from 65mm productions has been less stellar. First there were a lot of disappointing releases and now a decade into the format waiting for perfection that never comes gets very...

I do not think that anything has changed with regard to Ryan's Daughter and sadly the others. Ryan's Daughter should be an easy and relatively low cost project and therefore it is confusing to mention it in the same sentence as the three other titles that all require a very substantial...