French Charlie Bowers Blu-Ray

[bigshot]

After waiting over six months for it to come in stock, Amazon.fr has finally shipped the Charlie Bowers short collection to me. I'll report on it here when it arrives.

[jjbluecaps]

Great!

[Mark Zimmer]

Looking forward to hearing a full report, Bigshot. Love Bowers.

[bigshot]

Good news! The Bowers set arrived yesterday. I've only had a chance to look at a couple of the films, but it is amazing. Beautiful HD transfers from nice elements that derive from France. Very well done piano scores. The disk asks language (French/English) as you start it, and then all the menus are translated and there are subtitles for the French inter titles. Best of all, the package says the blu-ray is region free (the DVDs are PAL). Bowers was a drop dead genius. So many films here that I've never seen before. I'm going to devour this disk over the weekend.

[Michael Arlt]

Is there anything new on the french set that's not on the Image set?

[bigshot]

15 shorts. I think that is one or two more than the DVD

[Rick Lanham]

The titles on the Image DVD are:

Disc 1
Egged On
He Done His Best
A Wild Roomer
Fatal Footsteps
Now You Tell One
Many a Slip
Nothing Doing
Disc 2
Grill Room Express
A.W.O.L.
Say Ah-h! << part two only
It's a Bird
Believe it or Don't
Pete Roleum and his Cousins
Wild Oysters
A Sleepless Night
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Rick

[rudyfan]

I enjoyed the films I saw last May. Wildly fun!

[bigshot]

The Blu-Ray includes everything from the old DVD, plus There It Is, which isn't on the Image set.

[Unclehulot]

Thanks for the heads up on this! I searched the US Amazon site, and there are copies available there, believe it or not:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RI5 ... ge_o00_s00" target="_blank

[s.w.a.c.]

No sign of it on Amazon.ca, but I did find a recent reproduction of the Bowers Mother Goose Movie Book with flip-book-style animations by Bowers.