Warner Archive Collection Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[UndyAHundy]

Finally placed my mailer sale order:

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

Really?! I thought for sure this DVD was the restored color version that was shown on TCM? CRAP!!! Thanks for letting me know, but too late, I already bought it!

Did TCM show it? I checked it out the last time they broadcast it in the hope that I’d be pleasantly surprised but it was still the b&w print.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by Rayjg

Wasn't WAC or George hinting that they would release the color version if the B&W version sold well? I guess it did not

I don’t remember it ever being mentioned to be honest. I don’t keep up on the podcasts (that’s why I’m always grateful for sancarolina59’s condensed versions) so I’m sure I could be mistaken on that.

[Watershipdownisgood]

This reminds me I don't have many Black and White films on Blu Ray. I obviously have the Freaks Tod Browning collection on Blu Ray from the Criterion collection along with a few Akira Kurosawa films on Blu Ray but other than that that's pretty much it.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

Did TCM show it? I checked it out the last time they broadcast it in the hope that I’d be pleasantly surprised but it was still the b&w print.

I sure remember it that way and them showing it in color, but maybe it's the Mandela Effect?

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

I had that blu and was so pissed off that

[Show spoiler]Clint dies at the end

that I traded it in. Now that it's OOP, I regret it . I'm a purger. I get rid of stuff and regret it. Even tools for my construction company that I haven't used for years. I'll get rid of them and then a job will come up where I need it and I have to buy it again. Don't even ask me about the movies I had to buy twice just because I got rid of it. I swear, sometimes I think it would be better to be a hoarder, haha.

I've definitely been there on all that.

The German Blu of MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE is very cheap, but of course you don't get the Clint Walker interview, which I enjoyed just as much as the movie. Mayb KINO will re-release it?

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by Watershipdownisgood

This reminds me I don't have many Black and White films on Blu Ray. I obviously have the Freaks Tod Browning collection on Blu Ray from the Criterion collection along with a few Akira Kurosawa films on Blu Ray but other than that that's pretty much it.

You need these...

[Show spoiler]

[cash_black]

I wonder if they will ever do the season of V that came after the two mini series

[Okeh1931]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

I hope somebody releases The Mysterious Island. It seems to have been fully restored, shown once at a festival, and then vaulted away. Surviving Two Color Technicolor films are rare and it seems a shame that this one has disappeared again.

A group of Warner Bros. employees recently created a new turntable for transferring Vitaphone discs. They were transferring a disc from The Mysterious Island and posted a video of it on the Vitaphone Project Facebook page. Hopefully, this means a release is coming.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

If you can pick up the OOP Kino Blu of the 60's western MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE there is a great extra with Clint Walker being interviewed and expressing his admiration and respect for Vincent Price, who is wonderful in the movie. Clint says he was a hell of a gentleman and “one of the nicest human beings you could hope to meet”. It's also a terrific little and unusual western when the genre was being experimented on quite a bit and has a fantastic part for Vinnie when he was at the top of his game. Highly recommended for Price fans and 60's western movie aficionados.

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

I had that blu and was so pissed off that

[Show spoiler]Clint dies at the end

that I traded it in. Now that it's OOP, I regret it . I'm a purger. I get rid of stuff and regret it. Even tools for my construction company that I haven't used for years. I'll get rid of them and then a job will come up where I need it and I have to buy it again. Don't even ask me about the movies I had to buy twice just because I got rid of them. I swear, sometimes I think it would be better to be a hoarder, haha.

HATED the ending of this movie... also got rid of it. No regrets though....

[RalphoR]

Originally Posted by UndyAHundy

Finally placed my mailer sale order:

[Show spoiler]

Some of most stunning, classic beauties are in these films

[BackStJoe]

Originally Posted by cash_black

I wonder if they will ever do the season of V that came after the two mini series

On blu? That might be fun...I have the DVD set.

[SanCarolina59]

Originally Posted by Okeh1931

A group of Warner Bros. employees recently created a new turntable for transferring Vitaphone discs. They were transferring a disc from The Mysterious Island and posted a video of it on the Vitaphone Project Facebook page. Hopefully, this means a release is coming.

That's great news on the new disc transfer! I remember something of the new turntable was briefly mentioned by George when discussing the restoration of The Broadway Melody (the sound restoration source for that film was a set of pristine Vitaphone discs).

IIIRC, the holdup with the color version for The Mysterious Island when they released the DVD a few years ago was that they were unsure if they would be able to access the recently rediscovered elements, from an Italian archive I believe, for that version in time for that release, and the decision was made to release the existing older master on DVD instead of holding it up for likely years, since at that point I believe they were starting to wind down their DVD releases to focus on the Blu-rays. WAC hadn't started getting the funds yet to do as many major restorations like they have been, so I can see that as why the decision was made, but now that things are very different for WAC, hopefully they'll be able to do it. On a side note, I'm curious if they'll do the other films they rediscovered in Italy at the same time (Why Be Good? (1929), Synthetic Sin (1929), and Show Girl (1928)). The first two's restorations were completed, with the former being released on DVD only, and the latter being withheld since the Vitaphone synchronized score discs did not fully survive and WB didn't wish to pay for a new score. Show Girl was per George a few years back awaiting translation of the intertitles from Italian to English again.

[Watershipdownisgood]

Crap forgot to mention Dr. Strangelove I have that one too and Paths of Glory gosh Dang it two of my favorite Kubrick films of all time I think thats it though. And Breathless in 4k UHD, The 400 Blows, Saboteur, and Shadow of a Doubt, and To Kill a Mockingbird all on Blu ray. Although Shadow of a Doubt and Saboteur are on a Alfred Hitchcock collection of 4K UHD plus Blu Ray box.

[cjamescook]

Originally Posted by Okeh1931

A group of Warner Bros. employees recently created a new turntable for transferring Vitaphone discs.

Did they say why they needed to create a new turntable? At worst, they might need a different needle or perhaps a different speed motor...

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

I sure remember it that way and them showing it in color, but maybe it's the Mandela Effect?

The Mandela effect is not one person misremembering something (or, indeed, an actual thing that exists).

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by koberulz

The Mandela effect is not one person misremembering something (or, indeed, an actual thing that exists).

You are wrong again.

“The Mandela effect occurs when a PERSON believes that their distorted memories are, in fact, accurate recollections. They can clearly remember events that happened differently or events that never occurred at all.

The Mandela effect does not involve lying or deception. Instead, it occurs when a PERSON or group has clear but false memories.”

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...mandela-effect

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by RalphoR

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Some of most stunning, classic beauties are in these films

No less than a thousand ships agree with you!

[Taylor3978]

Originally Posted by UndyAHundy

Finally placed my mailer sale order:

[Show spoiler]

I thought I was alone in having a deep affection for Pharaohs (having first seen it on the BBC), for me it's more Jack Hawkins than Joan Collins with the bronzer. I was so happy when Scorsese singled it out for restoration, the man is doing God's work.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

You are wrong again.

“The Mandela effect occurs when a PERSON believes that their distorted memories are, in fact, accurate recollections. They can clearly remember events that happened differently or events that never occurred at all.

The Mandela effect does not involve lying or deception. Instead, it occurs when a PERSON or group has clear but false memories.”

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...mandela-effect

That is literally just misremembering things.