TJPC
Senior HTF Member
Shaw’s play ends with the two not together and with an epilogue telling what happened when she married Freddie.
No idea why the stills were ever used - unless it was something Warners' did to remind audiences "Hey guys, he's singing about Gigi"...
Gigi needs a proper restortion.
Amen, brother. It should and could look great.
ERRATA: Sometimes I get Leon Shamroy confused with Joseph Ruttenberg.Like the two BD versions of "My Fair Lady";
such a restoration would make the difference between one disc being a sham and the other a Shamroy.
And what would you call a guy who had 39 wives?I'd personally prefer the teal The King and I being properly restored in al its glory before this mysoginist claptrap.
Probably a little late to bring this up and not having the blu ray on this to do an A-B comparison. I did the audio for the laserdisc release. At first I was supplied with a dupe stereo audio track , of which sounded lifeless, no high end so I rejected it. Fortunately the replacement, although not the original mag master, had all the high end and transparency that was missing and sounded as you described, which I assume what was used.The audio on Warner's new Blu-ray, which has finally been released months after it appeared elsewhere, is brilliantly rendered on this new disc. Andre Previn's work, which can be heard in all its crystalline clarity on the stereo tracks has stood the test of time, and I'm not at all certain that things have gotten any better half a century later. His work is extraordinary.
RAH
In all its venues, your career and expertise is part and parcel as to why we love motion pictures, home theater and having the gift of hearing.Probably a little late to bring this up and not having the blu ray on this to do an A-B comparison. I did the audio for the laserdisc release. At first I was supplied with a dupe stereo audio track , of which sounded lifeless, no high end so I rejected it. Fortunately the replacement, although not the original mag master, had all the high end and transparency that was missing and sounded as you described, which I assume what was used.
MGM's method on their stereo titles was to put the LCR and the mono surround track on separate magnetic reels. So one had to be careful to synchronize them perfectly using the head 'pops'.
Probably a little late to bring this up and not having the blu ray on this to do an A-B comparison. I did the audio for the laserdisc release. At first I was supplied with a dupe stereo audio track , of which sounded lifeless, no high end so I rejected it. Fortunately the replacement, although not the original mag master, had all the high end and transparency that was missing and sounded as you described, which I assume what was used.
MGM's method on their stereo titles was to put the LCR and the mono surround track on separate magnetic reels. So one had to be careful to synchronize them perfectly using the head 'pops'.
I hope you realized that the audio was a Dolby Digital 4.0 discrete track?When that laserdisc of Gigi first came out, I had just installed my first ever Dolby Surround Pro Logic sound system and that disc sounded glorious. It took my breath away in fact.
Thanks PMF.In all its venues, your career and expertise is part and parcel as to why we love motion pictures, home theater and having the gift of hearing.
Thank you, Stephen, for playing an integral part of these...our great, great pleasures.
I hope you realized that the audio was a Dolby Digital 4.0 discrete track?
Another title I was associated with (Dolby Digital LD of "West-Side Story") had a most satisfying review in the laserdisc review newsletter:In all its venues, your career and expertise is part and parcel as to why we love motion pictures, home theater and having the gift of hearing.
Thank you, Stephen, for playing an integral part of these...our great, great pleasures.
Thanks KPmusmag. I always believed in optimizing the track without any kind of processing.Probably. That was so long ago now my memory is fuzzy, but what is not fuzzy is that it sounded fantastic and I was thrilled.
Another title I was associated with (Dolby Digital LD of "West-Side Story") had a most satisfying review in the laserdisc review newsletter:
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Shaw’s play ends with the two not together and with an epilogue telling what happened when she married Freddie.
Not really. Costs are generally down, while digital tools continue to arrive.“Gigi” as a BD is currently 12 years old.
I wonder if the restorative tools are now at a place where “Gigi” might excel towards a finer image quality.
At this point, I bet it would cost a pretty penny to achieve.
And yet, if we are to view and interpret “Gigi” with today’s jaded point of view, it’s the women in Gigi’s life who could be deemed as the true corrupters of her innocence.This is one of my favourite movies, which I had to stop showing in class however. My media students invariably told me it opened with a song sung by some " dirty old pedophile.!
So true. In the 2015 revival of the Broadway version, they took away "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" from Honore and gave the song to Mamita and Aunt Alicia. Hearing those two sing those lyrics made it worse, at least in my opinion.And yet, if we are to view and interpret “Gigi” with today’s jaded point of view, it’s the women in Gigi’s life who could be deemed as the true corrupters of her innocence.