Warner Archive Announcements Thread (1 Viewer)

[Paul Penna]

Just picked up Rancho Notorious and Our Dancing Daughters and noticed that while both of them had plentiful chapter stops, there was no listing or summary of them in the menu. How long has this been going on - did I miss a discussion of this ?

The only time I've seen WAC discs, both DVD and Blu, with chapter stop menus are those that have been clones of out-of-print Warner Home Video releases.

 

[Ed Lachmann]

I enjoyed my Our Dancing Daughters BD in a recent viewing. Very glad they put it out. Of course, I love most silents which to me are a magic portal into another time. Again, though, I wish WB would make use of their Brownlow/Photoplay already restored prints which I've enjoyed in various screenings over time. These are masterpieces and I'd imagine among the most wanted by silent film aficionados.

 

[Matt Hough]

Just picked up Rancho Notorious and Our Dancing Daughters and noticed that while both of them had plentiful chapter stops, there was no listing or summary of them in the menu. How long has this been going on - did I miss a discussion of this ?

Many years and not just on Warner Archive releases.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Many years and not just on Warner Archive releases.

It’s one of the easiest budget items to cut on authoring a disc without making a significant change to the user experience. Back in a past life when I was designing disc layouts for an authoring facility to execute, there were certain fixed costs that wouldn’t change regardless, and others that could quickly mount without adding significant value to the project. I couldn’t save money by making the content shorter, but I could save a bunch by cutting the number of chapter stops and eliminating individual menu pages listing what they were. I was dealing with titles that often were expected to sell just a few hundred copies, maybe in the low thousands if the stars aligned, so saving anything on authoring was a big deal.

 

[BobO'Link]

That's interesting, Josh. I rarely use those chapter stop menus as it's usually just as fast to start the program and skip through to where you want than suffer slow/animated menus, but I *do* like to have a goodly number of them on a disc depending on the title (TV shows - please have one right after the open runs as I don't necessarily want to watch the open a dozen time when binging).

The only thing I use those menus for these days is to skip all the unskippable warnings/ratings/etc. that often appear on movies after you hit "Play." You can often use that menu to go to the first stop (the one right at the beginning of the movie) and skip that normally unskippable stuff.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

The only time I really look at the chapter menu pages now is if I’m reviewing a disc for HTF - I want to make sure the disc functionality is what it’s supposed to be, or alert our members if there’s anything to be on the lookout for (like a chapter page button linking to the wrong episode, which fortunately has never happened in anything I’ve reviewed). Almost twenty years ago there was a time when half my morning would be taken up QC’ing check discs and making sure each and every button did what it was supposed to.

On the other hand, I am quick to skip over main titles on a TV binge watch - just never when I’m reviewing. That’s the one time where I want to make sure each opening is perfect. Even if there’s a glitch in the opening and the rest of the episode is fine, I think that’s something readers deserve to know. Fortunately I haven’t run into that either.

 

[Douglas R]

I must be extremely lucky in that I’ve never once received a scratched Blu-ray from any label, including imports, other than one disc I bought used where the mail carrier managed to step on the package.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a disc with a scratch either but then I don’t examine them under a microscope as some seem to do .

 

[Robert Crawford]

I'll be watching Goodbye, Mr. Chips later today and if I have time, the same with Wife vs. Secretary as my Blu-rays are being delivered today. I'm a fan of I love Lucy, but I didn't preorder The Long, Long Trailer because I never really liked that movie, when it used to play on the local NYC stations back in the day. However, it's been decades since my last viewing so I'm going to order it as I need to give that movie another chance.

Both, Goodbye Mr. Chips and Wife versus Secretary are outstanding Blu-rays. Warner Archive did it again as expected from them!

 

[RobertMG]

So looking forward to RAH's reviews of the 5 too - always enjoyable reading and learning from him - and all your posts are really GREAT!

 

[Capt D McMars]

So looking forward to RAH's reviews of the 5 too - always enjoyable reading and learning from him - and all your posts are really GREAT!

Mr F at bat boys!!!

 

[TheSteig]

Today I watched Stronger than Desire starring Walter Pidgeon and discovered something, it's a remake of the 1934 classic Evelyn Prentice !!! I enjoyed it as much as the one with William Powell and Myrna Loy !
I have that Walter Pidgeon double feature DVD with Society Lawyer and decided to revisit both when I made the discovery
That would be a nice Blu-ray double feature, although I kind of doubt it would happen

 

[RobertMG]

Mr F just let Tim Millard announce all six titles for March he gave me the okay to mention them here
Flamingo Road
Confessions Of A Nazi Spy
The Prince and The Showgirl
Neptune's Daughter
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Camille

 

[Joel Arndt]

Mr F just let Tim Millard announce all six titles for March he gave me the okay to mention them here
Flamingo Road
Confessions Of A Nazi Spy
The Prince and The Showgirl
Neptune's Daughter
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Camille

Now that's the type of post I've wanted to see on this thread for a long time now. Excellent news!

 

[RobertMG]

Now that's the type of post I've wanted to see on this thread for a long time now. Excellent news!

I did not want to step on Mr E or Mr C what happened I was chatting with Tim on the chat and I told him about the two that were announced he asked where I heard it I said HERE and I said to him wish Mr F would just announce all six to give pple more time and he reached out to Mr F and got the okay and gave his okay to post! So wanted to get it here b4 the other forum!


@everyone Per George Feltenstein of the Warner Archive, the following 6 Blu-rays will be released in March.

 

[TheSteig]

None of these I own on DVD. If I haven't seen these, I will be happy to check them out. I saw Flamingo Road when I did my Joan Crawford movie-a-thon, I thought it was OK, Id much rather have Sadie Mckee, Strange Cargo, The Damned Don't Cry , A Woman's Face, or Paid. Maybe some of them are on the horizon

 

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I did not want to step on Mr E or Mr C what happened I was chatting with Tim on the chat and I told him about the two that were announced he asked where I heard it I said HERE and I said to him wish Mr F would just announce all six to give pple more time and he reached out to Mr F and got the okay and gave his okay to post! So wanted to get it here b4 the other forum!


@everyone Per George Feltenstein of the Warner Archive, the following 6 Blu-rays will be released in March.


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I think this is a great selection of titles, and nice to see Red Skelton on Blu-ray.

 

[bujaki]

I think this is a great selection of titles, and nice to see Red Skelton on Blu-ray.

I love redheads with one big exception: RS.

 

[Rodney]

I'm in for all six!

 

[RobertMG]

A BIG THANK YOU TO MR F and Tim Millard and our MODS here too!

 

[RMajidi]

A BIG THANK YOU TO MR F and Tim Millard and our MODS here too!

Well sure, but on this occasion I think thank you too, Mister Bob!