Keith Paynter
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From Nitrateville.com:
David Shepard said:
"I might as well tell the world that we are just completing production on a new edition of that old warhorse, POTO, for release through Image Entertainment in early October.
This will be Blu-Ray, mastered at Movietone aperture from much better 35mm material than we have ever used before. There will be two complete runs of the 1929 version: one at 24 fps with a new score by the Alloy Orchestra and an optional score on theatre pipe organ by Gaylord Carter, previously issued in monaural but now in stereo from the original master stereo recording; the second run at 20 fps with orchestra/soprano score by Gabriel Thibadeau and an optional new audio essay by Jon Mirsalis. Both runs will include the Technicolor sequence mastered from our 35mm YCM labs negative and hand colored scenes on the opera roof and in the scene of "intolerable heat." The program will also include a standard definition transfer of the original 1925 edit from a tinted 16mm print in the usual deplorable quality but with a superb new score by Frederick Hodges. Extras will include (as still images) set construction and production stills, publicity stills, original advertising art, frames from a stencil-colored French release, and the complete script."
As a fan of Shepard's 1990 2-disc laserdisc, this is welcome news. This should satisfy both camps - those who feel 'Phantom' should be screened at 24fps, and those who prefer 20fps. (I'm in the 24fps camp, since the opening titles, lantern man, Mary Fabian/Carlotta and 'Spinning Wheel' sections are all that remain of footage shot for the sound re-release, integrated into the 1930 silent reissue). Gaylord Carter's organ score, dating back to Blackhawk's 16mm (I still have a print) and Super 8 mag sound days, will live again! (Lee Erwin's is still my favorite, though, from the Griggs-Moviedrome Essex Films version). Production materials are again recycled from the CAV laserdisc supplements and Image DVD's, but, the play's the thing!
David Shepard said:
"I might as well tell the world that we are just completing production on a new edition of that old warhorse, POTO, for release through Image Entertainment in early October.
This will be Blu-Ray, mastered at Movietone aperture from much better 35mm material than we have ever used before. There will be two complete runs of the 1929 version: one at 24 fps with a new score by the Alloy Orchestra and an optional score on theatre pipe organ by Gaylord Carter, previously issued in monaural but now in stereo from the original master stereo recording; the second run at 20 fps with orchestra/soprano score by Gabriel Thibadeau and an optional new audio essay by Jon Mirsalis. Both runs will include the Technicolor sequence mastered from our 35mm YCM labs negative and hand colored scenes on the opera roof and in the scene of "intolerable heat." The program will also include a standard definition transfer of the original 1925 edit from a tinted 16mm print in the usual deplorable quality but with a superb new score by Frederick Hodges. Extras will include (as still images) set construction and production stills, publicity stills, original advertising art, frames from a stencil-colored French release, and the complete script."
As a fan of Shepard's 1990 2-disc laserdisc, this is welcome news. This should satisfy both camps - those who feel 'Phantom' should be screened at 24fps, and those who prefer 20fps. (I'm in the 24fps camp, since the opening titles, lantern man, Mary Fabian/Carlotta and 'Spinning Wheel' sections are all that remain of footage shot for the sound re-release, integrated into the 1930 silent reissue). Gaylord Carter's organ score, dating back to Blackhawk's 16mm (I still have a print) and Super 8 mag sound days, will live again! (Lee Erwin's is still my favorite, though, from the Griggs-Moviedrome Essex Films version). Production materials are again recycled from the CAV laserdisc supplements and Image DVD's, but, the play's the thing!
