"All about Eve", "How green...", "Grapes..." and other Fox DVD in '03 (1 Viewer)

[Deepak Shenoy]

I am glad I held off on buying All About Eve. I had rented it once and found the picture and sound quality to be sub-par. I am also excited about Sunrise (which hopefully will be available separately) and Laura.

 

[oscar_merkx]

I am reviving this thread about Fox classics coming out, can anybody tell me the following ?
We know that in march Journey, Quest and The Day are coming out.
So what is coming out in February ?

 

[Joe Caps]

There is some confusion here - How Green was My Vallley was certainly NOT released to theaters in stereo. That stereo track ( which was created for the laserdisc) was created by me in the early nineties using Foxs multichannel music stems.

 

[SteveP]

PORTRAIT OF JENNIE was released with some kind of mutiple-speaker sound for the storm sequence in 1948 and then THIS IS CINERAMA followed with seven channel magnetic stereo in 1952.

 

[DeeF]

Stereo recordings were made in 1929 by my grandfather, Harvey Fletcher, at Bell Laboratories, working with Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. But 2-channel stereo would not fit on 35mm film -- so when direct-to-film audio was universally adopted (and Vitaphone, the synchronized disk process used by Warners and "The Jazz Singer" was thrown out) it became a mono medium. Stereo wasn't really added to film until the widescreen processes of the 50s. Fantasia used a synchronized disk process, which worked out because there was no dialogue to be synchronized perfectly.

 

[SteveP]

Was always under the impression that FantaSound had been a multiple-track optical process.

 

[PaulP]

Not sure if this has been posted, but I'm eagerly awaiting these.
Fronts:



and backs:



Thanks to DVDEmpire. Sorry if this is old news. Feel free to close it, moderators.

 

[oscar_merkx]

wow, these are mine
thanks for posting these

 

[Kirk Tsai]

Terrific, and the extras can be read, too. Are these going to be the only Jan. releases?

 

[Patrick McCart]

Very nice covers. I'm hoping one for Sunrise appears.

 

[oscar_merkx]

Patrick
I just knew you would bring this one up, I am sure someone will post it once they find it.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Gosh, that's classy-looking.

 

[Deepak Shenoy]

I just got done watching Sunset Boulevard (an amazing DVD!). I can't wait to get its rival (and eventual winner) for the Academy Award in 1950 - All About Eve. I hope the DVD is equally good (the extras sound promising).

 

[DeeF]

I misspoke. The FantaSound process was optical, but the film carried only the mono-soundtrack... a second piece of film held the additional tracks. There were two projectors running simultaneously, and these had to be synchronized.
Try this site:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~smpte/forties.html
Here's one about stereophonic sound:
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/stereo.html
Harvey Fletcher was my grandfather.

 

[JohnDMoore]

Oooh... Pretty cover art.
I've never seen "All About Eve" but I think I might pick it up just because of what I've heard of it.
I liked "How Green Was My Valley" and though I liked it, I think I might pick it up just to own the film that beat "Citizen Kane." It's still a wonderful picture, just not one of my favorites.
Regardless I like seeing really old catalog films.

 

[Douglas R]

These look great. I see they all have alternate stereo tracks as well as masses of extras. I'm going to have to get them all!

 

[David Von Pein]

My Gosh!
Just LOOK! at Bette Davis!!
She's a lot younger in All About Eve than I thought!

 

[Jaime_Weinman]

I hope Fox doesn't focus primarily on movies that won a lot of Academy Awards. (One of the unfortunate things about the Oscars is that they focus video stores' attention on Oscar-winning movies and actors at the expense of better movies and actors that never won.)

I'd particularly like to see Ernst Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait with Don Ameche (the laserdisc didn't do justice to its beautiful color photography) and Cluny Brown with Jennifer Jones (never available in any format).

 

[oscar_merkx]

here is the All About Eve review from http://www.dvdfile.com/software/revi...outeve_se.html

 

[Larry Sutliff]

here is the All About Eve review from http://www.dvdfile.com/software/rev...bouteve_se.html

I'm thrilled to hear that the title has undergone restoration. I never purchased the older DVD because it was no improvement over my old laserdisc, but I look forward to purchasing this remastered edition. The extras sound nice,too.