UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Sean Connery - 6-Film Collection -- in 4k UHD (11 Viewers)

[Wes Candela]

I personally have learned a TON about the technical aspects of film, film history, and film preservation from reading Mr. Harris' reviews and comments on these threads. I bet many others can say the same

Absolutely
The first time I saw him, I watched him in a video explaining how he was going through the resurrection process of Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Then searching for him, I found him here years and years and years ago

I asked him if he had seen the new 1080 P version of vertigo that they were playing on HD net

He had not yet

I’ve learned about die. Transfers, Digital intermediates, so much.

Just a wealth of info from… The one and only @mr @Robert Harris

In Robert Harris, I trust

 

[Wes Candela]

The Atmos track on Dr. No is heavily noise-reduced and rolled-off. I don't care for it. The movie also has absolutely zero need to be in Atmos. I might understand the argument to expand the score to stereo, but anything beyond that is pointless.

The mono has some hiss (no crackles or pops), but is a lot livelier than the Atmos track.

I borrowed Dr no last night for my cousin
You got a lot of audio choices on these discs

I agree with you
Heavily scrubbed, audio track for the Atmos, the mono track sounds nice and natural
More Fidelity, more honest reproduction of Voices and frequencies

The high end was not clipped
The picture is stunning, just stunning

I was trying to picture the movie in black-and-white, I’m glad it wasn’t shot that way

I don’t know that the Atmos is necessary, but I’ve only seen this first movie. My cousin doesn’t want to lend me the entire set. As he has not watched everything yet.

 

[Robert Harris]

I borrowed Dr no last night for my cousin
You got a lot of audio choices on these discs

I agree with you
Heavily scrubbed, audio track for the Atmos, the mono track sounds nice and natural
More Fidelity, more honest reproduction of Voices and frequencies

The high end was not clipped
The picture is stunning, just stunning

I was trying to picture the movie in black-and-white, I’m glad it wasn’t shot that way

I don’t know that the Atmos is necessary, but I’ve only seen this first movie. My cousin doesn’t want to lend me the entire set. As he has not watched everything yet.

Atmos is not necessary. It’s simply marketing sizzle for some films.

Same as HDR.

 

[Sam Favate]

I popped in three of the films yesterday, just to play around with them and see some of the 4k footage. I was not disappointed. I wouldn't say I was blown away, like I was in 2008 or so when the blu-rays came out, but back then HD was new to me, so I had that reaction a lot. The early Bond films continue to look amazing, and I concur that this is a step up from blu-ray.

 

[Osato]

I watched From Russia With Love last night. I’ve never seen it look better! Wow!

 

[JPCinema]

Has anyone redeemed their digital codes to see if you have the new 4K Dolby Vision HDR versions?

 

[Robert Crawford]

Has anyone redeemed their digital codes to see if you have the new 4K Dolby Vision HDR versions?

There are no new 4K digitals yet. I’m not redeeming my codes until that happens since I have two years to do so.

 

[Neil S. Bulk]

You Only Live Twice opened 58 years ago today. That's a perfect excuse to watch the new 4K UHD tonight!

 

[Wes Candela]

Atmos is not necessary. It’s simply marketing sizzle for some films.

Yes, absolutely and totally agree
And as you stated in your review

I’ve never seen Dr No look anything

ANYWHERE CLOSE

To being this beautiful before.

I have to get my hands on Russia

With Love, From Russia

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

You Only Live Twice opened 58 years ago today. That's a perfect excuse to watch the new 4K UHD tonight!

 

[dpippel]

I love the fact that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay. James (Bond) and the Giant Peach?

 

[MielR]

Gate hairs and damage present on the old Lowry 4K transfers appear to have been dealt with.

I'm curious if they fixed the missing frames issue from Goldfinger, which resulted in a noticeable jump-cut in a scene with a car turning a corner. There's a thread here somewhere where someone from Lowry claimed that the frames were missing on the camera negative, even though the frames were NOT missing on the Laserdisc edition of the film.

 

[JoshZ]

Has anyone redeemed their digital codes to see if you have the new 4K Dolby Vision HDR versions?

I redeemed the Digital Code (which covers all six films with one redemption). Then I checked Dr. No. It's still the 1.66:1 Blu-ray master, unfortunately.

 

[SwatDB]

I redeemed the Digital Code (which covers all six films with one redemption). Then I checked Dr. No. It's still the 1.66:1 Blu-ray master, unfortunately.

I thought you were referring to the 4K SDR master that MGM made back in 2017? (Redeem code, I mean. Apologies)

 

[SwatDB]

You Only Live Twice opened 58 years ago today. That's a perfect excuse to watch the new 4K UHD tonight!

My anniversary preference is to celebrate films for me personally when films reach with the numbers 0 or 5.

fx. "5th Anniversary or 10th Anniversary"

Still handy to keep a keen eye out on yearly anniversaries

 

[brioni]

I'm curious if they fixed the missing frames issue from Goldfinger, which resulted in a noticeable jump-cut in a scene with a car turning a corner. There's a thread here somewhere where someone from Lowry claimed that the frames were missing on the camera negative, even though the frames were NOT missing on the Laserdisc edition of the film.

The Criterion Laserdisc still has a little jump in it to my eyes. If they are damaged frames, it seems MGM binned them long ago but you never know with Peter Hunt... perhaps its deliberate so as to push the pace. Might be tricky but would need to cross-reference with the cue length of "Oddjobs Pressing Engagement"

 

[SwatDB]

I'm curious if they fixed the missing frames issue from Goldfinger, which resulted in a noticeable jump-cut in a scene with a car turning a corner. There's a thread here somewhere where someone from Lowry claimed that the frames were missing on the camera negative, even though the frames were NOT missing on the Laserdisc edition of the film.

Where at, got timecode, please?

My candidates to issue:

- Tilly Masterson section [at before Reel 3 comes in]?
- Attempted Escape from Oddjob?
- Before Mr. Solo's demise?

Interesting anecdote on some BTS on the Lowry restoration...
I won't forget it

Just out of curiosity:

A) Do you suppose the LDs (either Criterion or MGM/UA) used an interpositive element rather than the OCN?
B) Do you believe Lowry were bit too linear by relying just to the OCN rather than digging though all the necessary elements required for a definitive frame-complete restoration of their time? (including restoration of cut footage made by either BBFC or MPAA)

 

[sbjork]

A) Do you suppose the LDs (either Criterion or MGM/UA) used an interpositive element rather than the OCN?

It was uncommon for LD transfers (or VHS, for that matter) to be based on OCN scans. I don't recollect in the specific case of the Bond LDs, but I doubt it was anything other than an IP at best.

 

[Osato]

I redeemed the Digital Code (which covers all six films with one redemption). Then I checked Dr. No. It's still the 1.66:1 Blu-ray master, unfortunately.

Thanks for the update. I will hold my digital code until the new versions post.

 

[Lord Dalek]

It was uncommon for LD transfers (or VHS, for that matter) to be based on OCN scans. I don't recollect in the specific case of the Bond LDs, but I doubt it was anything other than an IP at best.

Some of the old DVDs were IP scans too. Man With the Golden Gun still had cigarette burns on it IIRC.