I was skimming through the DVDs of old films I have done preservations on, and the only one I found that has not either been released on DVD or given a better preservation by somebody else is Three Comrades, a film from 1938 that has yet to get a DVD release in any region, and probably never will. It is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (of whom I am a huge fan), was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald (the one and only screen play he ever wrote), and directed by Frank Borzage. It stars Robert Taylor and Margaret Sullavan. It was on New York Times’ list of top ten films of 1938.
Not sure if anyone here is interested in it, obviously MGM didn’t find it worth putting on DVD, but I still felt it deserved a preservation, and it is kind of ashame for me to hold onto it and not share it with other who might be interested.
I transferred it from a pristine retail NTSC VHS tape, which was pretty hard to find, it is full screen of course. I used a video capture board, and compressed it to fit on a DVD5. I learned a lot more about computers and video since I did this transfer several years ago, and would probably have done it differently now, but since then the desktop I used with the capture card has died, so I can’t have another go at it. The quality is pretty good though, for a VHS transfer anyway.
Anyway, if anyone is interested, I’d be willing to mail out copies of this (my internet connection isn’t fit for uploading such large files), or if someone is really interested in this and wants to use their own expertise to do a better transfer of this, I’d be willing to part with my VHS tape.
So, yeah, if anyone is interested reply here or PM me.
