Kiss Me Kate 3D Blu-ray (1953) [Region Free]

[danoldrati]

Kiss Me Kate 3D Blu-ray WAC re-release

Kiss Me Kate 3D Blu-ray

Hi
I just read that "Kiss Me Kate" 3D is in it"s final stages of restoration and will be released in 2015. I'm sure you will be hearing more about the release soon. I'm sorry if there is another thread but I couldn't find one. If I caused a problem I'm sorry, please be kind.

[Taygan315]

Originally Posted by danoldrati

Hi
I just read that "Kiss Me Kate" 3D is in it"s final stages of restoration and will be released in 2015. I'm sure you will be hearing more about the release soon. I'm sorry if there is another thread but I couldn't find one. If I caused a problem I'm sorry, please be kind.

Can you provide a link to what you read?? I would like to read it as well.

Your good danoldrati, no worries man

[Zivouhr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me_Kate_%28film%29

A link about the movie being almost one of the first 3D musicals I see according to this info above. I didn't spot any home release news though. I haven't seen this movie yet. I can imagine they went for strong 3D like a lot of the classic 3D films.

[Taygan315]

Start at post #327 and go from there


http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topi...lu-ray/page-17


Thanks to my buddy robtadrian for sending me this link

[Robert Furmanek]

Wardrobe tests for KISS ME KATE were shown in New York on September 9, 1953 with the Moropticon single-strip 3-D system. I wonder if those survive?

For more information: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/The-Bubble

[Paul H]

Very surprised that no one has mentioned that Kiss Me Kate's Technicolor dual-strip 3-D is in the 1.75:1 (intended ratio). Maximizing the FULL SCREEN 1080P area on 16x9 3D Displays.

[mseeley]

AWESOME! Really wanted to see this movie for a long time. From my understanding it was a great musical, along with being a great 3D film and a pioneering one. Can't wait to watch it and I seriously need to start collecting classic 3D films lol

[Taygan315]

Originally Posted by mseeley

AWESOME! Really wanted to see this movie for a long time. From my understanding it was a great musical, along with being a great 3D film and a pioneering one. Can't wait to watch it and I seriously need to start collecting classic 3D films lol

I hear ya mseeley. BIG reason why I'm getting a region free blu player isn't for Disney 3D titles, but for titles like Inferno!!

[bruceames]

Great news. I loove 3D movies from the 50's, and a musical will be so sweet to see.

[mar3o]

Excellent news! I've always wanted to see this in 3D, but never thought I'd be able to! I'm so glad to see more of these classics coming out, and I hope people are buying them.

So far we've got:

50's:

- House of Wax
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Dial M For Murder
- Man in the Dark
- Inferno
- The Bubble (coming soon!)
- Kiss Me Kate (coming soon!)
- 3D Rarities (Flicker Alley - coming soon!)

80's:

- Amityville 3D

Keep 'em coming! There's plenty of 'em out there.

[BleedOrange11]

Excellent news. This film has a great 3D reputation. I'm excited to see it.

Seems like Hondo should be next on the "Most Wanted" list (and maybe a region-free release of Inferno).

[revgen]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Excellent news! I've always wanted to see this in 3D, but never thought I'd be able to! I'm so glad to see more of these classics coming out, and I hope people are buying them.

So far we've got:

50's:

- House of Wax
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Dial M For Murder
- Man in the Dark
- Inferno
- The Bubble (coming soon!)
- Kiss Me Kate (coming soon!)
- 3D Rarities (Flicker Alley - coming soon!)

80's:

- Amityville 3D

Keep 'em coming! There's plenty of 'em out there.

Dragonfly Squadron (1954) will also be coming out on October 14th.

[jono3000]

From 3D Film Archive Facebook:

Happy Halloween from Ann Miller. Get ready for KISS ME KATE on 3-D blu-ray in 2015!

[ilovenola2]

Originally Posted by jono3000

From 3D Film Archive Facebook:

Happy Halloween from Ann Miller. Get ready for KISS ME KATE on 3-D blu-ray in 2015!

Gotta get a number on this post so it doesn't seem that "0" readers are interested in the appearance of one of the best and most-wanted films of the early-3-d era!! Saw it in 3-d when I was a kid-- can't wait to see it in 3-d next spring!

[jono3000]

Pre-ordered straight away

[Richard--W]

They are all arch in tone and mentality, these early 1950s films. One really does have to have a taste for the period to get the most out of them. Who would have thought in 1953 that 3-D would become these films' principle appeal in the near future. Of course, films from a half century ago don't seem as dated on the big screen as on home video; I've sat with audiences that were totally into them. I can turn the sound off on Kiss Me Kate and enjoy it for the stereoscopic depth and camera set-ups alone. I don't need to hear it so much as see it. Oddly enough, the 3-D films which seem the least dated, to my mind, are the westerns.

I agree with the post above that a digital clean-up would make these old films more accessible, not to mention more acceptable to contemporary viewers. Let's hope the 3-D Film Archive is funded to do that in their upcoming projects.

[GKintz]

As with any sixty plus year old musical, everyone's mileage will vary. I personally like the feature, and looking at this from a technical standpoint and as Richard has already noted, the stereoscopic 3-D photography is top notch. Add to that Warner Brothers did an excellent job bringing this title to 3-D blu-ray.

Along with it being one of the few surviving 50's 3-D titles with multi-channel stereo sound, KATE was unique in that the 3-D prints had a brief segment with extended 3-D gimmicks that was omitted from 2-D prints, and inadvertently omitted from dual strip 3-D revival prints made in the following decades. The first time this section and the original intermission were restored back into the film was a restored print from WB shown at the first World 3-D Film Expo in 2003. The first time the "3-D exclusive" clip and original intermission were restored back into the feature on home video is this 3-D bluray release.

[bavanut]

I must weigh in as one who also likes Kiss Me Kate very, very much. I've been well acquainted with it for going on 30 years now, having videotaped it off The Movie Channel when I was still a teenager. (I may have been the only South Carolina linthead of my day watching any sort of M-G-M musical, come to think of it.) I had to get used to the operetta singing styles of Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, but almost every other aspect of the film plays well even today. It's lighthearted, colorful, energetic, and has a very attractive cast, particularly Ann Miller. Va-va-voom! Most of the songs I find kind of catchy; by now I know all the words by heart, and sometimes sing along. And last of all, the stereo cinematography really has to be one of the top-drawer examples not only of the 1950s, but of all time.

I am the last person in the world to second guess Greg, except that I seem to remember a big deal being made in 2006, at Expo II, that we were privileged to see the reinserted "gimmick sequence" for the first time in ages. That footage could have been present in '03 as well; I was distracted at that earlier screening and might have forgotten its inclusion. The place was packed to the gills, and I, a festival pass holder, had to sit way back up in the rafters on the very last row of the balcony, while some of my dearest friends-- a married couple, fellow South Carolinians and devoted fans of M-G-M musicals-- had to crane their necks up at the screen from the very front row. I went down at intermission to offer one of them my spot, but they said they were fine. That cannot necessarily be trusted: polite South Carolinians will almost always tell you they are fine, regardless of circumstances. :-)

[BleedOrange11]

I have almost zero experience with musicals and enjoyed the movie much more than expected. It wasn't as fun as Dial M or Inferno, but it's a solid 7/10 for good choreography and a unique 1950s take on male dominance/female submission in romance. Most modern romances would be too PC and "progressive" to honestly explore that issue.

The 3D looks great and is used very well. It isn't quite as round as some other Golden Age features, but it's also filming from a longer distance away because of the stage I think. 9/10 for 3D, being nit-picky. Well worth my money.

[GKintz]

Originally Posted by bavanut

I am the last person in the world to second guess Greg, except that I seem to remember a big deal being made in 2006, at Expo II, that we were privileged to see the reinserted "gimmick sequence" for the first time in ages. That footage could have been present in '03 as well; I was distracted at that earlier screening and might have forgotten its inclusion.

Hi, Mike! IIRC, (and Bob or Jeff will be ones to know for sure) is in 2003 the first 3-D Expo showed a newly struck print with the added intermission and extra 3-D clip. Before the 3003 showing, it was correctly touted as a first complete showing in fifty years. When World 3-D Film Expo II rolled around three years later, that print was not available so the needed additional clip and intermission were added to a vintage twin strip dye technicolor pair and also combined with interlocking digital soundtrack via a time code method similar to what was done for the dual 35mm showing of "It Came From Outer Space". This was also the first time the additional footage was paired with a dye tech print in over 50 years, so it too technically was "a first". For Expo III in 2013, there was a problem with the digital interlock so the audio was optical mono.

Long story short: 3-D bluray eliminates a LOT of hassle.