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| Warner Archive, Oct. 19 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 13 2010, 09:34 AM (416 Views) | |
| Shemp | Oct 13 2010, 09:34 AM Post #1 |
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Warner Archive additions of October 19 went up for pre-order today... Lon Chaney HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) THE UNHOLY THREE (1925) THE MONSTER (1925) MR. WU (1927) MOCKERY (1927) THE UNHOLY 3 (1930) WB Horror Mysteries - 6 Movies (3 DVD Set) SH! THE OCTOPUS (1937) MYSTERY HOUSE (1938) THE PATIENT IN ROOM 18 (1938) THE SMILING GHOST (1941) THE HIDDEN HAND (1942) FIND THE BLACKMAILER (1943) H-B Cartoons THE ADDAMS FAMILY JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS IN OUTER SPACE GOOBER AND THE GHOST CHASERS THE FUNKY PHANTOM |
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| Cartoonguy | Oct 14 2010, 06:23 PM Post #2 |
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I definitely want the Chaney films, but I hope they will be remastered. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Oct 14 2010, 07:25 PM Post #3 |
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Not likely. Can you say "Time-Warner?" |
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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 14 2010, 09:46 PM Post #4 |
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HE Who Gets Slapped is the best Chaney film I've ever seen; the only disappointment in that group is The Monster, which is just a lousy movie that has nothing going for it except Lon. The six B-mysteries are gonna be fun, too. |
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| CliffClaven | Oct 14 2010, 11:59 PM Post #5 |
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I put in an order for the mysteries already -- They're cheap and the reviews on IMDB sounded interesting, if less than enthused. Meanwhile, where are The Saint and The Falcon? And who on earth was crying out for Funky Phantom, Goober and the 70's Addams Family cartoons? Forget the Censored 11 -- They've still got The Phantom Tollbooth in a box somewhere, along with the last of the decent Popeyes and Tex Avery's MGM output. |
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| JazzGuyy | Oct 15 2010, 05:43 AM Post #6 |
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Warner is not releasing this stuff in any organized fashion. I think they are releasing the Archive stuff either as appropriate masters become available or as they sense possible demand. If I remember correctly, when the Archive sets were first brought out, George Feltenstein of Warner said that they eventually (over a 5 or so year period) expected to have everything they don't think can sell sufficiently as full-blown pressed releases available through the Archive program. He estimated this was some 5,000 or more items. That count included television shows, shorts, cartoons and movies. So eventually everything in the Warner, MGM (that Time-Warner owns), RKO, Monogram and Allied Artists catalog for which they still hold rights is supposed to appear. I personally think they have done amazingly well so far. When this whole thing started, I thought it would be dead in 6 months. Look at all the stuff that is out that no one ever expected to see the light of day. Sure, there's a lot of schlock and that is to be expected given the massive size of the catalog. But there have been some really enjoyable items as well. With a little patience, we'll all eventually see all the stuff we personally want; it just may take a while. Now with Columbia doing the same thing and Universal farming some of its catalog out to small distribution companies (like Olive Films), I think the situation has improved quite a bit for people who want to obtain decent to excellent quality copies of rare stuff. 18 months ago the film collector market was looking pretty bleak, IMO. I know that these programs have made people outside the U.S. unhappy (you know who you are, Batman) but I still think it's amazing we have this stuff at all. It's sure keeping me broke.
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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 18 2010, 05:51 AM Post #7 |
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I deleted a bunch of posts on this thread that referred to purchasing these titles from bootleggers rather than Warner Bros. In The Balcony's policy is to support legit releases from the studio vaults when they are available. We do not support video pirates. I'll be happy to help out-of-the-U.S. Balconeers order titles from companies that do not ship overseas. |
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