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n 2017-07-22 12:03, MnTwister wrote:
This film has been my all time favorite movie since I was 3 years old
and saw it for the first time. Something about it resonated with me. I
was brought up in a small town in northern Minnesota, 90 miles south
of the Canadian border. Of course the theaters there were your average
small town movie theaters and we had 3 of them in a 40 mile radius.
After its initial run in 1967 (which is when our towns finally ), the
theater would show the film every year for 3 nights (Fri,Sat and Sun)
and I was there almost every night and for the matinees, which by the
way all showings were always sold out and there was a standing ovation
at the end of every showing). In 1980 when I graduated I moved to
Minneapolis but alas it was too late to see the film in 70mm,
something I dreamed about seeing, so that is something I was never
able to do, hopefully I will get to a 70mm film festival and be able
to see it there.
I have owned every single release on home video and since I am
currently writing a history of this film (I've spent 2 years on it
already), I'll offer here a bried history of the home video versions
which may be interesting to fans of the film:
First there were 3 different VHS releases, and then came 3 different
laserdisc releases and 3 DVD releases. For every one of these
releases, 20th Century Fox remastered the film and it always looked
and sounded different. I would go on to say that this had more
remastering of the picture and sound than any other film released on
home video. But none of them ever had everything done right, until the
40th Anniversary DVD which was very close to the Robert Wise approved
remaster which was for the laserdisc box set (30th anniversary). For
that they even went as far as to press a gold CD of the soundtrack and
almost all underscore music from the original 35mm music master tapes,
these would be the tapes used at the actual recording session, so they
would be first generation. When it was time to release a 45th
anniversary edition and for the first time release the film on blu-ray
disc, which I waited for hour by hour since the announcement, Fox said
they were going back to the 65mm camera negative and making an 8k
scan, converting it to 4k and releasing it on Blu-ray (which is 2k).
When it came out, the most ardent of fans had some major complaints.
All of a sudden, almost all of the pinks and blues were missing. This
film looked like it never had before. It was very heavy in the brown
and beige and green palettes. I am a member of all of the video web
sites like Home Theater Forum, and have written film histories for
Blu-ray.com, The Digital Bits and Home Theater forum.
Well, I can tell you those who remembered seeing it in glorious 70mm
were very upset and all came out exclaiming this looked nothing like
what they remembered, as these people had seen it in 70mm when it came
out and for the 1973 reissue, and it looked nothing like Robert Wise's
approved 30th anniversary video transfer. Many went on to say they
were selling their blu-ray and were sticking with the 40th anniversary
DVD which most (some of them projectionists at the time) agreed was
the closest. The blu-ray is a drastic change in the look of the film
and while the detail is jaw dropping due to the 1080p high definition
and the work they did on scanning each frame of the Todd-AO film,
everything is earthtone and it was not the way the film had ever
looked. There is rumour that for the 4k blu-ray release, which will
probably be on its 55th anniversary (the 50th anniversary blu-ray was
the same as the 45th, the one in the wrong palette of colors), that
they will correct the color.
Another problem with the blu-ray version is the sound. Those who know
better all agree that Fox added noise reduction to the sound. They
claim in interviews that the public today is not used to tape hiss, so
most of the time they remove it. The problem with that is, it removes
some of the sounds and frequencies in the upper register which would
be horns, cymbals and many other instruments, and indeed if you listen
and compare it to the 40th anniversary DVD, the DVD has a much cleaner
sound, even though Fox used, for the blu-ray, the original 6 track
stereo master for the first time. I was very saddened by this, as this
is one of the most beloved musicals of all time, and even in it's
name, The SOUND of Music, that they would do this. Personally, I would
rather have the tape hiss there and hear everything the way it was
recorded. Remember there was no Dolby noise reduction in 1965, so
naturally the master tapes have tape hiss, it was just part of the
recordings in that era. So my opinion is they ruined the chance for a
beautiful high definition release by changing the color palette in
every scene, and adding noise reduction to remove tape hiss that
should be there which inadvertently removed the very high end of the
sound.
So there's a little history for those interested in the past and
current home video releases. I have all of the film's posters
including the 3 sheet, 6 sheet and 24 sheet (and I waited for sales
where these would be mint or near mint). I have the pressbooks,
presskits, and one half of a wall in my home theater room contains all
of these items. I do have the poster being discussed here which I came
across about 10 years ago and had never seen before. It seems unusual
to me that they would print something that was not full color for this
film.
If any of you are interested in reading the history of such films as
The Ten Commandments, This is Cinerama, Frankenstein, Jaws, The Gold
Rush, Psycho, Citizen Kane, Marilyn Monroe films, and many others, I
used to write for Blu-ray.com and was able to make up 60 columns over
a two year period, my column was called The Silver Screen and you can
read them here (there are many pages of them so just click next page
at the bottom for more columns). I got some of this material from the
pressbooks and did alot of research on these films. One thing you will
notice is that I tried to present these differently that other movie
columnists, instead of using the same old photos from the movie, I
used poster art and tried to make these columns as appealing visually
as they were to read. I personally cleaned all of these images up and
spent hours doing it so you will see many U.S. and international
posters here corrected in major detail (I even removed the poster fold
lines). Also the same with sets of lobby cards and other materials.
There is much to read I am very proud of these. There are 4 pages
worth of titles to choose from:
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/search.php?action=search&keywordtitle=&keywordtext=&postername=Robert%20Siegel&fromyear=&frommonth=&fromday=&toyear=&tomonth=&today=&interview=0&article=0&giveaway=0
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