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WTBS ran the newly mastered version of this on their HD channel, and even on my 32" 720p set I was totally blown away by the quality of the new restoration. You can see fine detail in costumes and fabric textures I can hardly believe were somehow caught on the 1939 original film. Further, you can get a better appreciation for how much went into the original film. The tornado scene is still marvelous and the cgi people have nothing on the 1939 technology. I'm still in awe of how they did that.
This is an amazing film on a host of different levels and you have got to see the new remastering in HD or on the soon-to-be released Blu Ray disc.
If they can restore a 1939 film like this, can all classic films get the same treatment? The stunning detail in the B&W parts was perhaps the best of all. And the soundtrack never sounded better.
This was probably not cheap to do, but warranted given the long term popularity of the film. Will restoration costs come down so that similar technology can be applied to less popular but still classic films?
This was stunning after all the years of watching this movie with soft lines and faded colors. I was blown away.
David
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I can barely remember how this looked when it first came out in 1939.
OK, I wasn't born then, but I did see this in a movie theater a few years ago. I've seen many old movies in movie theaters, although now that home video has killed most of the art houses, I rarely get that opportunity.
I still think film is better than digital. And I like blu-ray a lot. There are theoretical arguments that 35 mm film has higher resolution than the current blu-ray format. Well, blu-ray comes a lot closer than DVD ever did. And you can't beat seeing movies when you want at home.
But I still don't quite see as much as I do on a big screen in a theater.
A very important BR release to me was The Seventh Seal. I've seen this at least once in a theater and several times on DVD. (The Criterion DVD has an excellent commentary track as well.) It greatly benefits from its new high resolution release. I'm sure I'll never play the DVD again.
I've attended a couple of photo exhibitions recently where digital cameras were used + I've developed the conclusion that digital camera definition has become so good that only medium format (film) cameras have an edge over digital; and maybe not for much longerAs for digital transfers from film to hard drive, there are so many software tools available for sound + vision that almost anything can be done post-production
Blu Ray looks like it is fulfilling its promise as a DVD replacement format
GW
Edits: 10/05/09
I'm sure that the resolution of the digital cameras used in the photos in an exhibition are higher than the blu-ray resolution. That is why I restricted by statement to the blu-ray format. And in terms of post-production, that's all well and good, but it doesn't restore resolution.
BluRay is excellent but, to my eyes, it still doesn't compare to a quality 35mm print when it comes to the theater experience. Digital still photography has made amazing advances.
-Wendell
The three strip TECHNICOLOR camera used in the WIZARD OF OZ was awesome. Three black and white negatives ran through the camera; two sandwiched together and one on the other side of a dichroic prism. So the color seperations were made in the camera in perfect registration. The lens system was designed by Cooke in England and had unsurpassed resolving power. This camera was huge when it was in a sound proof blimp and weighed in at several hundred pounds. I haven't seen any long crane-dolly (moving camera) takes even with the advent of a STEADYCAM to equal the camera work in this film with this huge heavy camera. Unfortunately, many camera negatives have not been cared for like this one has. Many fine films are virtually lost due to negative shrinkage or in some cases self combustion in the case of nitrate stock that wasn't replaced until the early fifties. Ray
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I have the Casablanca Blu-Ray in my Netflix queue. It is my favorite film.
I have seen the HD-DVD release and didn't consider it much, in any, better than the DVD.
-Wendell
...I'm amazed and pleasantly surprised by how gorgeous B&W films can be on BD. Casablanca is far better on Blu than DVD.
and, by the time shooting began, she had developed into a.... very chesty young woman. The director and producer had a heck of a time deciding what to do and finally settled on a time-consuming and very restrictive costuming design.
I've always found this-- I apologize to the legions who love it--- a horribly uninteresting film but after I read that, I admit to enjoying the next viewing a bit more, seeking the evidence of the concealment efforts.
My favorite part has always been Judy's pipes in "Somewhere over the rainbow" I didn't realize other parts of here were equally developed. OZ deserves a quick viewing.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
I've watched this a couple of times + didn't enjoy it at all
Must be a American thang...
GW
You didn't like it the first time so you watched it again? Why would anyone do that? :-)
-Wendell
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