Who owns the rights to the 1993 version?
This should actually be a cause of relief. It specifies "Restored of a Finegrain 35mm print" -- far more reassuring than releases like The Quiet Man or Rio Grande. Those releases never promised anything more than being "digitally remastered." What it is remastered from is never specified on the Artisan discs, though most of the time it was from the same VHS transfer used years ago. "Restored" is one word I never saw being associated with an Artisan release, unless it was "Restored audio."BOTH FILMS WERE RESTORED OF A FINEGRAIN 35MM PRINT – NOT THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
The original negative for INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS does not exist and is considered lost.
The HIGH NOON negative does exist – But this restoration was done off a FINEGRAIN.
Hi John. Are you familiar w/ the DVD? If so, how did the HD broadcast compare?John Hodson said:I saw a HD broadcast version of 'Body Snatchers' a while back; it was decent but no socks were blown off. And that's what I think we'll get on BD.
No Doug; I've been waiting a long time for someone to produce a worthy edition, and that includes decent supplements.Doug Otte said:Hi John. Are you familiar w/ the DVD? If so, how did the HD broadcast compare?
Thanks,
Doug
Ditto.Richard V said:I like the original the best, with the '78 version a close second. The Invasion was pretty poor, in my opinion, although it was nice having Daniel Craig in there. Kevin McCarthy's slow degeneration into complete paranoia is unmatched.
Would the original camera negative have been full frame? Years ago I saw a 16mm print that I'm,sure was full frame (1.33:1) and not panned/scanned like the later full frame releases of the movie on Laser and DVD (including Criterion).Bob Furmanek said:For the record, both INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and JOHNNY GUITAR were composed and intended for 1.85:1.
The decision to release IOTBS in Superscope 2.1:1 was made after the film had completed shooting.
From my Aspect Ratio Research thread:Allied Artists officially announced 1.85 as their house ratio on July 6, 1953, although some AA features had already been composed for that ratio in June. With a few exceptions of 1.75 or 2.55 for individual titles, all of their productions from that point forward were composed for that ratio. IOTBS began filming on March 23, 1955, Siegel would have been composing for the studio ratio. It would appear the decision was not made to adapt the film to 2.1 SuperScope until May, one month after the film had wrapped production.
The Perspecta track was transferred to a modern configuration that allows it to be heard successfully in today’s sound formats. The entire track was done for Paramount around 2005, I so I hope it can be included in this release. I erred about a surround track. Sorry.Bob Furmanek said:Perspecta would only be heard in the front 3 channels.
I ran the first reel in Perspecta about ten years and for that reel, it was limited to only the opening titles. The music came from all three speakers and the rest of the reel was center channel only. Paramount utilized the same minimal approach to the system on their VistaVision titles.
I had approached Paramount with Bob Eberenz (the man who helped develop the system with Fine Recording) to transfer all of their 3 channel Perspecta tracks in the mid-90's. They weren't interested...
It can be found by entering this ASIN in the Amazon search box: B007Y1NPSMJohn Morgan said:I tried finding INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS on Amazon, as someone mentioned they ordered it. No problem with HIGH NOON, but after looking a bit, the 1956 Olive release is there, but Amazon mistakenly have added [1978] after the title, so you may have to scroll down to find it.
IOTBS will be sourced from a fine grain print. The only aspect ratio should be 2:1.dana martin said:The little Sci-Fi paranoia film that could, ok if any of you could tell me, how is Olive Films releases in HD? I don’t have a single one as of yet, but if they now are going to be going thru the Republic Catalog that could change real quick. Back to the opening statement, IOTBS could be presented so many ways and I don’t know if it would make everyone happy, the only way for that to happen would for it to be a two disc set SuperScope and Director version on separate disc, also add the option of original ending and no narration (The Pure Cut) that has been mentioned, love this film, and if this can get WB to look at Hawks “Thing” for a high def release, it make it all the better.
High Noon, just waiting to fawn over Grace Kelly and watch as Cooper kicks ass
You can only get the full 1.37:1 aspect ratio from the negative which doesn't exist.dana martin said:yep i know, and i am ok with that, because it was OAR, but also the other Aspect Ratio would have been a nice extra