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Apr 25, 2012 - 8:28 PM
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twinarchers
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Yes you are correct and I looked it up. Funny how you read something but you did not really get what you read.
Here is a link that you will all like from a fellow fan just in case you have not found it yet.
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http://amillionfeetoffilm.tumblr.com/
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.....For a film that won the Acadamy Award for its image.....
Although it was nominated for an Oscar, the photography of ONE EYED JACKS did not win its Academy Award.
I love Charles Lang's work in many, many fine films of the Golden Age, however any awards which might have been given for the photography of ONE EYED JACKS would probably have better been given to the Chief Location Scout rather than the Cameraman.
The Academy membership, particularly since the early 1950s and the extensive use of color, have always had a difficult time of ascertaining the difference between photography and scenery, with THE QUIET MAN, TO CATCH A THIEF, THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN, RYAN'S DAUGHTER, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI and others being prime examples of wins for cameramen who often did much better jobs on less geographically-spectacular films.
(Having said all this, I'd still love to see a first-class, authorized Blu-ray of OEJ from the original VistaVision elements.)
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:09 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Do we know just how or why this film OYJ has that public domain stamp on it?? I must have missed it somewhere in the reading I have done on it?
When the film was originally produced, it was registered for copyright not by distributor Paramount Pictures, but by Marlon Brando's production company, Pennebaker, Inc., on 31 December 1960. At that time, the length of copyright protection for films was 28 years. Apparently, when the time came to renew that copyright, it wasn't done, and so the film went into the public domain. That meant that anyone who could get a copy of a print (or the laserdisc that Paramount issued in 1994) could copy it and issue it on DVD. But even though Paramount does not have any exclusive right to release the film, they still maintain the best elements for it in their vault.
That's the common belief anyway. But it is interesting to note that the Wikipedia list of films that are in the public domain does NOT include "One-Eyed Jacks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States#Determine_copyright_registration
And another source indicates that an application for copyright renewal WAS made. To wit:
One-eyed jacks. By Pennebaker, Inc.
Type of Work: Motion Picture
Registration Number / Date: RE0000409372 / 1988-12-29
Renewal registration for: LP0000019590 / 1960-12-31
Title: One-eyed jacks. By Pennebaker, Inc.
Copyright Claimant: David R. Baer (PWH)
Variant title: One-eyed jacks.
Names: Baer, David R.
Pennebaker, Inc.
Other sources suggest that the person supposedly requesting that renewal, David R. Baer, doesn't exist and is a phony name under which other renewal requests have been made. On the other hand, it is also pointed out that, although the film itself may be in the public domain, certain elements of it, particularly the musical score and the underlying source novel (The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider, published in 1956), remain in copyright. Thus, release of the film without permission could violate these copyrights, if someone chose to enforce them.
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Cinema Retro has an interesting piece on this classic in the new issh.
The reviewer accurately states that it is a classic and most undervalued.
He also states that the best video version is still the Pioneer Laser Disc release.
Dammitt!
brm
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