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Post #1505910

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Nien Nunb
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Help Wanted: The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Fan Preservation ( unfinished project )
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30-Sep-2022, 12:34 AM

captainsolo said:
The Criterion release is mastered from MGM’s Tech IB print, which then MGM did their own movie only version of twice over. Then for the Ultimate Oz set they remastered it in CAV and added their own extras. The initial DVD release is a port of this master and I believe it was the subsequent remastering for the DVD boxset reissue in 2005-2006 or so that introduced the error in the mono mix.

It was the 1998 restoration that introduced the dialogue error which has carried over into every other release since. This restoration was re-released theatrically and on DVD in 1999. The '98 was the last major photochemical restoration done before 2005.