Say What's On Your Holiday Wish List and Win Cinerama!

[Mike Gebert]

It's that season again, and NitrateVille wants to know what you're hoping for this holiday season. Movies? Books? Recordings? Autographed photos of Belle Poitrine? Whatever it is, tell us in this thread (and inspire others in their shopping, too).

And our friends at Flicker Alley have a little incentive for you to tell us— well, not exactly little, in fact it's Cinerama sized! I'll draw two names from among everyone who posts their holiday wishes here, and each will win one of the new Cinerama titles in Smilebox blu-ray/DVD combo sets:



From bobsledding in the Alps to motorbiking across the West, the Cinerama cameras never stop in this second Cinerama adventure from 1955, as an American couple sees Europe for the first time and a Swiss couple crosses the U.S.



The exotic South Pacific region is captured by Cinerama in colorful episodes ranging from skiing in New Zealand (watch out for Orcs) to surfing and even bungee-jumping. There are also women in grass skirts and the voice of Orson Welles.

So post your holiday wish list, and I'll pick a winner on December 24th. Thanks again to Flicker Alley.

And me? My wish list includes Little Man, What Now? and the Bob & Ray biography Bob and Ray, Keener Than Most Persons.

[boblipton]

What I want for the holidays is for it to get not so frickin' cold.

Bob

[R Michael Pyle]

What I want for the holidays is for it to get not so frickin' cold.

Bob

At first, I thought that said 'old'.

Ditto for me, except I'd add what I thought Bob had originally written. Fat chance for either - eh, Santa?

[ColemanShedman]

South Seas Adventure
The Blue Angel Blu-ray
The Uninvited Blu-ray
Nosferatu Blu-ray
To Be or Not to Be Blu-ray

[Frederica]

I'd like a new refrigerator. And I'd really like for big cats, elephants, and rhinos in the wild to make a startling comeback in numbers this year. And The Uninvited Blu Ray.

[R Michael Pyle]

I'd like a new refrigerator. And I'd really like for big cats, elephants, and rhinos in the wild to make a startling comeback in numbers this year. And The Uninvited Blu Ray.

While you're at it, how about no more holes in the upper atmosphere. After all, aerosol cans of shaving cream made the lotion come out much more uniformly...

[missdupont]

HURRELL'S HOLLYWOOD
SONGS IN THE KEY OF LA
Christina Rice's Ann Dvorak biography

[Jim Reid]

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World blu-ray (at least it can be pre-ordered)
16mm Tech or LPP cartoons (various)
Too many books to list.....

[Frederica]

I'd like a new refrigerator. And I'd really like for big cats, elephants, and rhinos in the wild to make a startling comeback in numbers this year. And The Uninvited Blu Ray.

While you're at it, how about no more holes in the upper atmosphere. After all, aerosol cans of shaving cream made the lotion come out much more uniformly...

World peace would also be good, but I'm not holding my breath on any of this stuff.

[Robert Moulton]

The Sturges Box Set

I already have the Bob and Ray book so my next wish would be for someone to come and finally go through all my videotapes I've had sitting in boxes for close to 6 years

[rudyfan]

Hurrell's Hollywood by Mark Viera
Roadshow by Matt Kennedy
The Univited blu-ray, too!
The many hours of my life that were taken away in reading the new Barbara Stanwyck biography
and Joan's wish for all the lions, elephants, tigers, etc.

[Dan Oliver]

I have a birthday right before Christmas, so I make long lists:

Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins, by Noah Isenberg

Kevin Brownlow: The War, The West and the Wilderness and Behind the Mask of Innocence

Three discs from Milestone
Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
The Olive Thomas Collection
Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer

Karloff: Criminal Kind

On Approval (Blu-ray)

Wild River (Blu-ray)

Charlie Chan Collection (the Monograms with Roland Winters -- no, I'm not too proud to admit it)

[Donald Binks]

I have had lots of Happy Christmases over the years. All I would like is for someone who has not had a happy time of it this year to have one nice, happy day.

[David Alp]

"The Wizard Of Oz" 3D
"Nosferatu" Blu Ray
"Phantom Of The Opera" BFI Blu Ray
"All Quiet On the Western Front" Blue Ray.

[NotSoSilent]

Here's my list. I guess I think I was pretty good this year!

Books:
Chaplin’s Vintage Year: The History of the Chaplin’s Mutuals
Hollywood: The Pioneers
Garbo

DVDs/Blu-rays:
The Stan Laurel Collection
The Stan Laurel Collection 2
Harry Langdon...The Forgotten Clown
Harry Langdon: Three’s a Crowd and The Chaser
Sadie Thompson
Foolish Wives
Lost and Found: American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive
Manslaughter / The Cheat
The Laurel and Hardy Collection (The Devil’s Brother and Bonnie Scotland)
Sunset Boulevard
A Fool There Was
Heart o’ the Hills
Through the Back Door
Suds
The Cook and Other Treasures
Evangeline

Other:
2014 Charlie Chaplin Calendar

[Gagman 66]

Well lets see now. I just got an order today. Still don't have any of the following.

Cohen INTOLERANCE Blu-ray.

Mileston - BABY PEGGY THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.

Flicker Alley Albatross French Silents set.

Criterion CITY LIGHTS Blu-ray.

Kino Harry Langdon - THREE'S A CROWD/ THE CHASER.

MIlestone CUT TO THE CHASE DVD set.

BFI - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA DVD and Blu-ray set.

Dutch Archive THE RED LANTERN DVD.

Milestone EVANGELINE DVD Re-release. I lost my first print copy. Believe I lend it to someone and never got it back.

[Rick Lanham]

There are so many wanted. Here are some:

Tam Lin aka The Devil's Widow blu-ray from Olive with Ava Gardner, Roddy McDowell's only directorial effort.

The Blue Angel blu-ray.

Nosferatu blu-ray.

The Baby Peggy set from Milestone.

The Wild and Weird set from Flicker Alley.

Intolerance blu-ray from Cohen.

Rick

[35MM]

DVD's
Lost & Found: American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive (1914-1929)
The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection (still cheap)
The Uninvited

Books
Hollywood in Kodachrome
The Book Thief (library binding)

[Daveismyhero]

I'd love to find the blu-ray of Our Hospitality under ye olde Christmas Tree this year.

And Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, too! Don't judge me.

[Donald Binks]

Excuse I, and forgive me if I appear 'iggorant' - but how does one look at a film photographed in the Cinerama process on a television set? Do you get three DVD's and then have to line up three television sets with three DVD players side by side and try and get the three DVD's to work simultaneously? I am intrigued - because (a) if the picture was panned and scanned, you would miss out on a lot and (b) if it was shown in letter box format - the actual picture area would be so small you wouldn't be able to see what you are looking at? Just intrigued.

[Mike Gebert]

I know it seems like a gimmick, but it's surprisingly effective. I've enjoyed all of them so far (as should be obvious by now given the masthead, etc.) I should also note that the color correction is better on the released versions, and the differences between panels are, though not invisible, substantially less (see here).

[Rick Lanham]

Oops, Mike beat me to it. Redacted.

Rick

[Donald Binks]

I know it seems like a gimmick, but it's surprisingly effective. I've enjoyed all of them so far (as should be obvious by now given the masthead, etc.) I should also note that the color correction is better on the released versions, and the differences between panels are, though not invisible, substantially less .

Thanks for posting this. Quite a novel way of doing it. One would immediately think that the movement on the left and right screens would be somewhat distorted - but it isn't. Must have been corrected. Funny how the eye compensates and makes you feel that this is more real than a normal flat widescreen image. Maybe "normal" pictures will be done in this way for added realism?

I saw the dates on the bottom of some of the films - gee whiz - was it really that long ago!

[Dee Deforest]

World Peace and no more hunger and suffering....but since I'm probably not going to get that I will settle for..the Pola Negri book that's coming out and Hurrells Hollywood would be kinda nice ... Oh and the new biography about Ann Dvorak..

Dee

[seaquest]

I'm going for a vintage acoustic record player to play 78's on and some new belts to revive my 16 mm projector back into action.

[Donald Binks]

vintage acoustic record player

Is this what a gramophone (phonograph if you are in America) is called these days? This political correctness is getting into everything!

[realist]

My List:
White Christmas (I hate to admit this, but I never saw any other than a brief clip, prior to the digital showing I attended this December)
Cinerama Holiday
Route 66 (the complete series)

[Allen Perkins]

-Canon T3i
-Ass Reaper Hot Sauce (with skull cap and cape)
-Nintendo 3DS
-Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Two Worlds
-Super Mario 3D Land

[silentfilm]

Chaplin's Vintage Year book
Richard Roberts' Smilage Guaranteed book
The Big Parade BluRay

[Mike Gebert]

One more day to post your wish list; I'll post the winners on Christmas Eve day.