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Yeah I wonder what's in the collection?
OP if you find out please post (well that goes for any member)
:D

Looking forward to this!

never got a movie like this how is the disk packed is it in cardbord or is it a regular case in side cardbord box

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Originally Posted by krazyclown (Post 1753558)

never got a movie like this how is the disk packed is it in cardbord or is it a regular case in side cardbord box

Regular Blu-ray case inside a cardboard slipcover.

Bought the ultimate collectors edition just a few years ago. Hope there is alot of new stuff added. Must buy when released. CANT WAIT

Just saw a clip of the DVD.. why did they change the color in the beginning and end of the film? It was brown.. not black and white, as I remember it throughout my childhood. Did they pull a George Spielberg on us?

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Originally Posted by JamesKurtovich (Post 1755046)

If I remember right (in the lore) the movie was originally in sepia (the brown). It was changed to black and white later, but I forget the reason.

The sepia is how it was originally done. Though someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Originally Posted by JamesKurtovich (Post 1755046)

I don't know what DVD you are watching...because the three versions I have all have Sepia tones at the beginning...not Black and White.

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Originally Posted by JamesKurtovich (Post 1755046)

Jesus. That change was made back in 1989 for the film's 50th Anniversary, and every television showing and video release since then has been this way. Where have you been for 20 years? :confused:

Maybe my set from back in the day was jacked, but I remember Black and White too...it has been to long since I watched that movie. Just watched Pinochio, I forgotten about a lot of the stuff in there as well.

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Originally Posted by CRMA (Post 1756272)

Again, it was shown in black and white for the longest time. It wasn't originally done in black and white, though. It was originally filmed in sepia and changed to black and white later.

It was changed back to sepia, though, as originally intended and that's how it's appeared on releases for many years now.

Here's from wiki on it:

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Beginning with the 1949 reissue, and continuing until the film's 50th Anniversary videocassette release in 1989, the Kansas sequences were printed and shown in ordinary black-and-white, not sepia tone, and so TV viewers saw them in black-and-white for more than thirty years. This was done despite the fact that sepia tone had been specifically chosen for the picture to help mask the switch to Technicolor. The actual switch occurs before the door is opened from the transported house onto the Land of Oz. In the sepia prints, one doesn't notice any color until that door is opened, because the door itself is a shade of brown which matches the sepia tone. In black-and-white, one cannot help but notice the switch to color before the door is opened, which was precisely what the film's producers wanted to avoid. For the film's fiftieth anniversary restoration, the sepia tone was brought back to the Kansas scenes, and beginning in 1990, the film was shown on television as originally released in 1939.

wizard of oz release date on Blu-ray?

Does anyone know when wizard of oz will be released on blu-ray this year?

I don't believe there is an official date but I would not expect this any earlier than October...

wizard of oz release

With that being said, what about the lord of the rings trilogy when will this be released in the US on blu-ray?

The theatrical cuts are being prepped for BD but no date yet.

I only see a collector's edition of W of Oz that sells for almost $60! Will there be a more reasonable edition?

Man, I hope this is the last time I have to buy this title.
(of course I dont have to buy anything...but still)

amazon pre order wizard of oz

i pre ordered the wizard of oz blu ray a few days after hearing about it coming out for pre order. amazon rescently sent me an email saying they will cancel my order by may 12th because they cannot give me a ship date yet. that is stupid. why would they do that? it is up for pre order, meaning , hopefully that it will be coming out sometime soon. so they would cancel my order? Then what? I'd just have to wait until it comes out on dvd to order it? Anyone know if it will be available to buy at walmart and target stores?

From a topic I posted in over at DVDTalk. Keep in mind that it's not confirmed yet.

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Originally Posted by MTRodaba2468

I stated this in the other topic already, but I'll go ahead and mention it here as well.

According to our reservation list at FYE, The Wizard Of Oz is scheduled to come out on Blu-Ray on September 23rd. Gone With The Wind is scheduled for December 1st.

Again, since these haven't been officially announced, take these with a grain of salt.

The Wizard of Oz is day one for me.. Gone with the Wind will be a Christmas present for the mama.