3D Meet Bob Furmanek: HTF Golden Age 3-D Consultant (2 Viewers)

[Bob Furmanek]

Correct. Many were printed in Technicolor but the only golden age 3-D features actually photographed in three strip Technicolor (Dynoptic 3-D) were Flight to Tangier and Money from Home.

Mike, thank you very much for your magnificent review. You have a way with words that is most impressive and leave me humbled and speechless.

 

[aPhil]

Correct. Many were printed in Technicolor but the only golden age 3-D features actually photographed in three strip Technicolor (Dynoptic 3-D) were Flight to Tangier and Money from Home.

Mike, thank you very much for your magnificent review. You have a way with words that is most impressive and leave me humbled and speechless.

I assume that the issue with getting "Flight to Tangier" to 3D Blu-ray is scanning 6 strips of film and combining the two 3-strip elements for each eye ?

 

[Timothy Bodzioney]

Bob, is Money From Home a dead issue or is their a chance for a foreign release?

 

[Bob Furmanek]

On both films, there are existing composite elements of the right side but we would have to scan and digitally recombine YCM's of the left and that's about $30K - three times our usual budget.

We could have done FTT from a dye-transfer 35mm print of the left matched to the IP of the right (not ideal but Greg Kintz would have made it work) but the current owner, David Packard, refuses to allow access. He does not seem to care if anyone sees the film in 3-D again.

Ironically, the print was mine at one time but was sold out from under me by a film dealer who had promised to give me first right of refusal if he sold the collection. He did not.

MFH may eventually happen once it leaves Olive but there is nothing definite at the moment.

 

[Todd J Moore]

Bob, two questions and a comment:

Question 1) Is a Kickstarter a possibility for Flight to Tangier?

Question 2) How much longer does Olive have Money From Home?

Comment: Watched Sangaree the other day. It looks incredible! Congratulations on another fantastic job!

 

[Bob Furmanek]

Kickstarter is not an option with Tangier. Paramount legal will not approve.

I think they have MFH until 2020.

Thanks!

 

[mcash007]

I enjoyed a 3Dfilmarchive double feature this weekend! Sanagree & Those Red Heads From Seattle! Thanks again to everyone at 3D film archive for there tremendous work!

 

[mcash007]

Bob, do the other Universal 3D titles have any movement? I know you had mentioned that you were looking for a region B distributor about a year back, and then the recent Kino deal that happened. Drop us a nugget of hope!

 

[Bob Furmanek]

 

[mcash007]

That is a nugget!

 

[RolandL]

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Interesting movie about the death of George Reeves

 

[John Hermes]

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This quote has ended up being good news in the past!

 

[Camps]

We could have done FTT from a dye-transfer 35mm print of the left matched to the IP of the right (not ideal but Greg Kintz would have made it work) but the current owner, David Packard, refuses to allow access. He does not seem to care if anyone sees the film in 3-D again.

Isn't Packard also the guy who's now sitting on I, the Jury? Wassup with this guy?

(Feel free to treat this as a rhetorical question, Bob. I don't want to spark any hassles for you with a billionaire... )

 

[SFMike]

Finished watching Sangree and was amazed at the quality you guys wrung out of these degraded prints. I really think this is your best work ever and an amazing achievement. Congratulations on another masterful restoration in the technically challenging 3D medium. It's just sad your excellent restorations have to come out at a time the industry is again kicking 3D to the curb. Suffice to say you will be heroes in the future to cinema buffs for preserving our popular 3D culture from disintegrating away in a store room somewhere. Thanks again for the pleasure of adding another "golden age" 3D feature to my video collection.

 

[RolandL]

I sent an email to [email protected] suggestion they do a segment on the 3D Film Archive on their Sunday Morning show. With all the repeats they have, they should do one on them instead. Maybe if more people wrote to CBS they would.

 

[Dick]

Isn't Packard also the guy who's now sitting on I, the Jury? Wassup with this guy?

(Feel free to treat this as a rhetorical question, Bob. I don't want to spark any hassles for you with a billionaire... )

He is the evil twin of Wade Williams. Make that an evil triplet. There's Susan Hart, too.

 

[Camps]

More about Mr. Packard:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ackard-film-preservation-20160306-column.html

 

[Malcolm R]

More about Mr. Packard:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ackard-film-preservation-20160306-column.html

I'm doing this because I love these movies and I want them to survive.

They must have cut off this part at the end: "...I just don't want anyone to ever see them again."

 

[Stephen_J_H]

I think Mr. Packard's MO can be summed up thusly: he wants to preserve films, but he doesn't see the benefits to anything that makes them more accessible to home video audiences. Remember, this is the guy whose friendship with Steve Jobs broke up over his belief that movies shouldn't be seen on 2 1/2" screens.

While I love a proper theatrical experience, I also love the ability to see 3D films at home, as screenings in theatres are starting to wane.

 

[RolandL]

He should finance an LG OLED model with 3D capability.