International Via Vision Entertainment announces new premium Blu-ray label IMPRINT (9 Viewers)

[Capt D McMars]

...and he looks about 17 years old, LOL!!!

 

[ahollis]

Well I bit for the bundle. I love the Serials and very happy to finaly be able to see the feature films made from the serials. Voyage of Damned is a favorite and I’ll be happy to have an upgrade of Capricorn One.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Definitely curious about an extended version of Capricorn One!

 

[Alan Tully]

I loved those old serials when I saw them on Saturday mornings at the cinema in the fifties & early sixties (they started my love of cinema). I have several on DVD, my Cheezyflicks DVD set of King Of The Rocket Men looks pretty good (I'm not sure how legal it is), I'd want to read a review or two before buying the Blu-ray (an expensive import). While I was looking for King Of The Rocket Men I also found DVD sets of, Undersea Kingdom (Roan Group), Zorro's Fighting Legion (Image) & Jungle Girl (VCI). I need to look at them again, but not as a mega-view, they don't work if you do that, maybe just one or two episodes a night.

 

[Paul_Warren]

Capricorn One - be very interested to know how the transfer is on that one! .....its a mixture of different film stock & techniques......previous Bluray is very poor...not sure it can ever be fixed!

Great movie though amazing cast hope they fixed it picture wise!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

 

[Randy Korstick]

Interested in the serials. It would be a no brainer if it didn't so many that have already been released.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I just got notice that The Prisoner set just shipped so anyone else who ordered it will probably be getting it soon.

I forgot which episode order they used but my memory of the show from the last time I cycled through it was that the variations in order suggestions didn’t really make a difference to my enjoyment of the show one way or the other, so I’ll probably just hit “play” and not sweat it either way.

 

[Allansfirebird]

I just got notice that The Prisoner set just shipped so anyone else who ordered it will probably be getting it soon.

I forgot which episode order they used but my memory of the show from the last time I cycled through it was that the variations in order suggestions didn’t really make a difference to my enjoyment of the show one way or the other, so I’ll probably just hit “play” and not sweat it either way.

Mine arrived yesterday. Weird thing I'm noticing from Imprint lately is they're not sending me the email confirmation with shipping number anymore.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

 

[moviepas]

Mine arrived yesterday. Weird thing I'm noticing from Imprint lately is they're not sending me the email confirmation with shipping number anymore.

I get it from the Australian Post Office but then I live in Australia.

 

[Konstantinos]

 

[Konstantinos]

Far better artwork than Mill Creek's and I assume it will be a better release overall too.

 

[Osato]

Far better artwork than Mill Creek's and I assume it will be a better release overall too.

Agreed! Hopefully they will
Distribute the episodes more evenly in the discs so that there aren’t compression issues as there were on the I dream of Jeannie mill creek set!

 

[JoshZ]

I think you may have misread. There is not a new extended version of Lynch’s Dune. The “new extended version” refers to the making-of documentary that first appeared on Koch’s German release of the film.

The extended version of Dune that’s included on the disc is the TV version that was credited to Alan Smithee, assembled out of deleted scenes, production artwork of unfilmed scenes, tied together with looped selections from existing score and a hamfisted narration. It was completed on film rather than tape decades ago, so it is genuinely widescreen.

I'm responding to an old post, I know, but I was searching through this thread and felt it worth clarifying a point on this.

The 1988 "Allan Smithee" extended TV cut of Dune was cobbled together from a mix of both David Lynch's production footage (originally photographed at 2.35:1) and new footage shot by Universal's MCA TV division - namely, all those painted stills that make up the new Prologue and are randomly inserted into various scenes to substitute for "special effects." That content was photographed at 4:3. (There are also a couple live-action shots that look like they were lifted from some miscellaneous Biblical epic and don't look anything like Lynch's material.)

The Smithee cut was originally created in 4:3, with all of Lynch's footage panned & scanned. For the 2006 "Extended Edition" DVD, Universal reconstructed this version of the movie in 2.35:1 widescreen with Lynch's footage restored to its original ratio. However, those shots of the paintings were badly cropped on top and bottom to conform to the new ratio, leaving some of them almost incomprehensible.

Also, it's a common misconception that the paintings were production art. (I've been known to dismissively call them "storyboards" for shorthand, myself.) But they were not done by anyone associated with the Lynch production, and are not even remotely in the same style as the film's actual production artist, Ron Miller. The Masterpiece in Disarray book by Max Evry clarifies that those paintings were actually commissioned after-the-fact by MCA and were hastily produced by Jaroslav Gebr, best known for the Saturday Evening Post-style art interspersed throughout The Sting.

 

[Christopher McG]

Also, it's a common misconception that the paintings were production art. (I've been known to dismissively call them "storyboards" for shorthand, myself.) But they were not done by anyone associated with the Lynch production, and are not even remotely in the same style as the film's actual production artist, Ron Miller. The Masterpiece in Disarray book by Max Evry clarifies that those paintings were actually commissioned after-the-fact by MCA and were hastily produced by Jaroslav Gebr, best known for the Saturday Evening Post-style art interspersed throughout The Sting.

Gebr also did the paintings for the Night Gallery pilot movie, and when Universal/MCA decided to pad out the series' syndication package with re-edited episodes from The Sixth Sense, recalled Gebr to do after-the-fact paintings to show behind Rod Serling's after-the-fact intros.


Apparently Gebr was the guy to call when a studio needed this kind of help.

 

[Patrick McCart]

The Prisoner is my first Imprint import and I'm impressed. Great quality product and I love the theming they did. Instead of "Disc One" it's "Number One" and it's "Interrogations" instead of "Special Features." Having previously owned the A&E set, the same masters appear to have been used, but with better compression. Biggest improvement would be the audio, going from A&E's lossy mono and 5.1 tracks (with the mono way too low) to Imprint's excellent-sounding uncompressed mono and lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1, as well as music/effects tracks in Dolby Digital 2.0. I don't see the eventual release from Shout (if they ultimately reissue it) improving on this unless they manage to do a 4K UHD. Which probably wouldn't be very flattering to the show.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Received a package from Via Vision/Imprint today.

On the plus side, it includes the new Prisoner box set that I ordered.

On the minus side, rather than sending the 2009 version of the Prisoner on Blu-ray that I ordered, they instead shipped me a DVD copy of the 60s series.

Hopefully their customer service will be able to assist.

 

[dstrong]

I appreciate the Via Vision Blu Ray release of the 1972-73 American series "Ghost Story/Circle of Fear."
Another paranormal series from 1972 that I'm hoping gets a Blu Ray release is "The Sixth Sense," which ran for 25 episodes. The guest stars alone make it a worthwhile watch.

 

[Camps]

Man in a Suitcase was a great little series, and Texas-born Richard Bradford (perhaps better known as the Irish cop who gets into a knock-down drag-out with Sean Connery in The Untouchables) was a shamefully under-rated actor.