Posted by One-Shot Scot on 10/31/05 16:07

"Derek Janssen" <djanss@nospam.charter.net> wrote in message
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> One-Shot Scot wrote:
> > "Lookingglass" <Shemakhan@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:3fSdnRitiJ3QXvjeRVn-vA@comcast.com...
> >>I have picked up each new "restored" video version, as it's one of my
> >>favorite films. Somehow the technicians, this time, have managed to
> >>re-align the 3 color strips so that they match up perfectly...

I believe I heard somewhere in the _Gone With The Wind_ commentary that the
computer re-alignment of the three Technicolor strips was pixel-perfect to
the extent that the film alignment looked better than it did in 1939. I'm
sure that OZ was restored the same way.

Now, if everything that we have heard is true, Warner has restored _King
Kong_ (1933) -- the Fay Wray version, not that Jessica "Oh Kong, Oh, Oh, Oh
Kong" Lange piece of shit -- to the Nth degree. November 22 will be an
expensive day for me, because I plan to buy ALL three _King Kong_ DVD sets.

> ... but we finally got our Music-Only track back, for the first
> time since laserdisc. :)

I remember that. The mono soundtrack was on one channel and the music-only
track was on the other.

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