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Sep 17, 2016 - 8:25 AM
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Rameau
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I think the problem is that the Fox Archives people seem to be grabbing the first masters they can put their hands on.
They've been doing it too consistently for years to be an accident. Almost all their American MOD dvdrs for widescreen movies are pan/scan, while in Europe the films get released in widescreen on minted dvd. Amazon is full of angry consumers with the same complaints since they started their MOD division. Clearly, and presumably despite low sales, FOX thrives on this.
I think I may have been a bit unfair when I wrote that (as CinemaScope). Fox seem to be such a strange company, with different departments acting as separate companies & not co-operating with each other. The department releasing the MOD program probably doesn't have access to better masters, it's a crazy way to run a company. After a less than satisfactory Blu-ray release of Patton, Fox re-did it, & everyone's very happy with it. It was never released in the UK (& region A locked in America), so after the release of the good edition Fox announced a release in Europe, lovely...except they released the first DRNed to death edition! When asked, Fox Europe said they didn't have access to the new transfer, er...this is one company isn't it? A very strange company.
I like 23 Paces To Baker Street for the lovely colour cinemascope shots of mid-fifties London, & I love the Leigh Harline score, the title music is like a proper overture, & I love the eerie music as nasty things are being done, it's one of my most wanted fifties releases, so far nothing, I wonder if the sound tapes have made it, it has been sixty years.
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