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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: McLintock! Blu-ray   Last Post   Posted:   Feb 26, 2014 - 4:29 PM     By:   johnjohnson   (Member) Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of director Andrew V. McLaglen's McLintock!, starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Chill Wills, Jack Kruschen and Edgar Buchanan. The 1963 western made its barebones Blu-ray debut last year, courtesy of Olive Films. The Paramount edition includes numerous special features and streets on May 13th. Paramount has yet to detail technical specifications. Special features include: •Introduction by Leonard Maltin •Audio Commentary with Maltin, director Andrew McLaglen, producer Michael Wayne and actors Maureen O'Hara, Stefanie Powers and Michael Pate •The Making of McLintock! •The Corset: Don't Leave Home Without One! •2-Minute Fight School •Photo Gallery •Theatrical Trailer in HD http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=13342    Posted:   Feb 26, 2014 - 4:34 PM     By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member) Good news! Hopefully, more Olive titles will get a better release in the future as well.    Posted:   Feb 27, 2014 - 1:58 AM     By:   manderley   (Member) McLINTOCK, for whatever reason, appears to be in public domain. Because of a number of less than positive comments about their final product, I suspect that Olive Films may have released this on Blu-ray (beyond their Paramount contractual deals) by making a new hi-def transfer from a 35mm Technicolor release print wherever they could find it (and cleaning it up as best they could). If Paramount is involved in the new transfer and release, it is because they are working within their joint contractual deal with the John Wayne/Batjac estate, and probably are utilizing the original camera negative. It should, therefore, look spectacular this time.    Posted:   Feb 27, 2014 - 4:22 PM     By:   Gary S.   (Member) McLINTOCK, for whatever reason, appears to be in public domain. Because of a number of less than positive comments about their final product, I suspect that Olive Films may have released this on Blu-ray (beyond their Paramount contractual deals) by making a new hi-def transfer from a 35mm Technicolor release print wherever they could find it (and cleaning it up as best they could). If Paramount is involved in the new transfer and release, it is because they are working within their joint contractual deal with the John Wayne/Batjac estate, and probably are utilizing the original camera negative. It should, therefore, look spectacular this time. I'm sure the commentary track with Michael Wayne is from the earlier DVD edition as Michael has been dead for a few years now. I'm sure the Paramount Blu is done with the co-operation of the Wayne Estate.    Posted:   Apr 22, 2014 - 10:41 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) From The Digital Bits: "Paramount has set McLintock! for release on Blu-ray Disc on 5/20. The BD features a new 4K film scan and carries over all the extras from the previous DVD release, including an introduction by Leonard Maltin, audio commentaries by Maltin, Frank Thompson, Maureen O’Hara, Stefanie Powers, Michael Pate, Michael Wayne, and Andrew McLaglen, 3 featurettes (The Making of McLintock!, The Corset: Don’t Leave Home Without One!, and 2-Minute Fight School), a photo gallery, and the film’s theatrical trailer in HD."    Posted:   Apr 23, 2014 - 2:27 AM     By:   CinemaScope   (Member) I've had the R1 DVD for years & that looks very nice, so I'm expecting this Blu-ray to look just about perfect (unlike the Olive release that was taken from an old Technicolor print). I wonder what the chances are for another Paramount early sixties western in the public domain, starring & directed by that old bloke that was in The Godfather, er, what's 'is name...Marlon Brando.    Posted:   Apr 23, 2014 - 12:29 PM     By:   johnjohnson   (Member) I like the blurb on the box: Authentic Collector's Edition - From Original Film Elements Not a dig at Olive Films, was it?    Posted:   Apr 23, 2014 - 3:10 PM     By:   manderley   (Member) I like the blurb on the box: Authentic Collector's Edition - From Original Film Elements Not a dig at Olive Films, was it? Very good. They should all be doing this when there is an official release of a PD film. But the phrase "Original Film Elements" is somewhat meaningless: The Olive release was from an "original film element"---in this case an authentic 35mm IB Technicolor release print made at the time of the original release of the film. There needs to be a carefully worded new phrase that everyone can use, something that might include terms like "authorized ownership", "original camera negative", "original fine grain or interpositive struck from the original camera negative", etc. "Although this film is in Public Domain and available from other sources, there is only one ORIGINAL AUTHORIZED CAMERA AND SOUNDTRACK NEGATIVE from which this film can be mastered for video in optimum visual and aural quality. This release comes from that carefully preserved camera and soundtrack negative." I wonder if the studios fully understand that in the case of the public domain films which are in their libraries, if they presented them properly, mastered from the actual original negatives they hold, and made a bold statement on the video packaging asserting this, they wouldn't have any problem selling them again to quality-conscious purchasers. There must be 50-100 PD films I've purchased over the years, trying to get a better copy. Occasionally I've been successful in upgrading somewhat, but mostly we have more of the same---except from different PD suppliers.    Posted:   Apr 23, 2014 - 11:07 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) There must be 50-100 PD films I've purchased over the years, trying to get a better copy. Occasionally I've been successful in upgrading somewhat, but mostly we have more of the same---except from different PD suppliers. Not to be a killjoy, but what prevents all the public domain labels from immediately copying this Paramount Blu-ray and rushing their own versions into the market?    Posted:   Apr 24, 2014 - 1:59 AM     By:   CinemaScope   (Member) There must be 50-100 PD films I've purchased over the years, trying to get a better copy. Occasionally I've been successful in upgrading somewhat, but mostly we have more of the same---except from different PD suppliers. Not to be a killjoy, but what prevents all the public domain labels from immediately copying this Paramount Blu-ray and rushing their own versions into the market? I wonder if Paramount can have copyright over their HD transfer? Not the film, just their transfer, it makes sense to me that they could do. Also, it's not Gravity, it's an old minor Wayne western, a small niche market.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2014 - 2:15 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Not to be a killjoy, but what prevents all the public domain labels from immediately copying this Paramount Blu-ray and rushing their own versions into the market? ------------------------------------------- I wonder if Paramount can have copyright over their HD transfer? Not the film, just their transfer, it makes sense to me that they could do. Also, it's not Gravity, it's an old minor Wayne western, a small niche market. I suppose anything is possible. But most of the PD versions of ONE EYED JACKS seem to have come from Paramount's laserdisc. Apparently they have no rights in that transfer (at least none worth the costs to assert, which goes to you latter point).    Posted:   Apr 24, 2014 - 2:38 AM     By:   CinemaScope   (Member) Anyway, kudos to Paramount for doing this with a PD movie, & I hope it works out well for them, & paves the way for a decent HD release of, One-Eyed Jacks.     Non-Film Score Discussion: McLintock! Blu-ray    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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