Southwest Passage 3D Blu-ray (1954) [Region A Locked TBC] coming soon-ish

[Joe D.]

Originally Posted by Interdimensional

Curious that both were filmed in Utah in summer of 1953. Several hundred miles apart it seems, it may have been of some convenience to Mr Ankrum!

Hi Interdimensional,

Kanab, Utah and it's surroundings is used by Hollywood for location shooting quite often. We were there, saw storage lots housing numerous facade only structures and many distinctive landscapes, some of which I now immediately recognize. It was fun being there.

[Interdimensional]

Originally Posted by Elsinore

“… America’s all-consuming dromedary obsession.”

ah yes, that obsessive mania for those desert-bound beasts of burden, in the days before Beatlemania and other mass-infatuations gripped the nation!

Promotion must surely have been asleep at the wheel to have missed such a trick.

"If you only see one 3-D Camel movie next year, make it Southwest Passage!"

Originally Posted by Joe D.

Hi Interdimensional,

Kanab, Utah and it's surroundings is used by Hollywood for location shooting quite often. We were there, saw storage lots housing numerous facade only structures and many distinctive landscapes, some of which I now immediately recognize. It was fun being there.

I'm always curious about sets and locations, but at the same time wary about how such knowledge may affect the film-viewing experience. In a film like this I want to believe they're in the middle of dangerous and untamed wilderness that stretches almost endlessly. I don't know how it might feel to recognise and know that such an outcrop of rocks is just across the way from the most mundane aspects of civilization. Although there's a kind of magic in how a film can stitch together a string of locations that may not necessarily be in close proximity that can only be fully appreciated with that kind of familiarity.

[jtchance]

Watching a stream of SOUTHWEST PASSAGE on Screenplex at 1:37 to 1. IMDB says the intended ratio is 1:66 to 1. Bob where do we stand?

[BleedOrange11]

Maybe Bob can provide more relevant details, but Southwest Passage was intended for 1.66:1, according to 3DFA's old website.

[jtchance]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Maybe Bob can provide more relevant details, but Southwest Passage was intended for 1.66:1, according to 3DFA's old website.

That’s what I thought. When TCM broadcast it it was 1:66 to 1.

[HDM_fan]

Any update on this disc?

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by HDM_fan

Any update on this disc?

I wouldn't expect a disc for a while, this was the last update:

Originally Posted by Robert Furmanek

There’s an awful lot of juggling that must go on behind the scenes. It’s all based on workflow and licensing timelines. You don’t wanna know our budget for hard drives!

In the restoration timeline, while Bwana Devil was nearing completion, Frankensteins Bloody Terror became the next priority title from MGM so those scans were moved ahead of Southwest Passage.

We hope to get the SP scans shortly once we deliver FBT to Kino…

[Robert Furmanek]

Still waiting on the scans...