I’ve of course ordered these new editions of the films which were supposedly scanned from the original film elements:

I don’t have any info but will post again once I’ve watched them all. Early reviews seem to be the expected level of over-compression and too much noise reduction. I don’t know how complete they are (proper intros/outros, etc).

I’ve already had a few people ask whether I’ll incorporate these into a release. I don’t really have any plans to but who knows. Presumably I’d use them as a base and patch them with I guess upscaled versions of other films. It gets to the point where I’d need to do more work to make the different sources match better and I’d probably want someone with actual expertise to help out.

Also I’m honestly not 100% clear on the legality. The films are in public domain but Warners’ new releases may be derivative works, which would have their own copyright. FWIW I’ve never encountered a legal challenge to my earlier releases. If you happen to have actual knowledge of this (that is, you’re a lawyer or have worked on this sort of thing, or have articles on similar cases I could read over, I am curious).