Warner Archive for 2014

[Brooksie]

Worth it for Blonde Crazy alone. I'd somehow never seen it until it was part of the recent TCM showing. A terrific little dark Pre-Code.

[colbyco82]

Up for pre-order in November is volume 8 of Forbidden Hollywood, which will include

Blonde Crazy (1931)
Strangers May Kiss (1931)
Dark Hazard (1934)
Hi Nellie! (1934)

http://shop.warnerarchive.com/product/f ... e=&from=fn

-HA

I asked about Strangers May Kiss on the Warner Archive Facebook page a while back and they said it was in pretty rough shape and needed work before it could be released. Hope the work has been done and they aren't releasing an old worn out print of this great film.

[bettedavis]

Up for pre-order in November is volume 8 of Forbidden Hollywood, which will include

Blonde Crazy (1931)
Strangers May Kiss (1931)
Dark Hazard (1934)
Hi Nellie! (1934)

http://shop.warnerarchive.com/product/f ... e=&from=fn

-HA

I asked about Strangers May Kiss on the Warner Archive Facebook page a while back and they said it was in pretty rough shape and needed work before it could be released. Hope the work has been done and they aren't releasing an old worn out print of this great film.

I've been begging for this film to be released I'm glad it finally is. I can imagine the print though, my copy is in terrible shape.

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

Yay, Our Blushing Brides! I can't understand why they don't make a nice boxed set or package of the three Our Something Something films. From memory, the Warner Archive print of Our Dancing Daughters was a tad soft. Restoration? Well, we can dream ...

AFAIK, all prints of OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS are soft. I've seen a very old 16mm rental print and it was the same. Unless there is archival material sourced from a different 35mm print, I don't believe there is anything better.

Yep, and all existing prints of OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS have that printed in hair, too. MGM gets kudos for instituting a program fairly early on to transfer all their nitrate to safety film, but sad to say, their lab work was not all that great. I knew a fellow who worked in the MGM lab back in the 1960s and 70s and he said a lot of the work was rushed. MGM wanted the stuff copied, but they wanted it done quickly and spending the least amount of money.

The OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS nitrate was already starting to go and all that we are left with is the print you see on the Warner Archive DVD.

Perhaps the 'rushed' work is understandable in the wake of the 1965 MGM vault fire, and the need to get copies made before it was too late. Many of the prints I watched in the NFT 1980 retrospective were quite remarkable, and when a poor one turned up (such as WINNERS OF THE WILDERNESS) one would be aware of what would have been regarded as a race against time.