Thoroughly Modern Millie has never been released on Blu Ray or any HD Digital release. The most recent release is DVD. Don’t know if there is any interest in this? The print appears to be open full frame. Colors look great too.
The title of this thread should be changed haha. Also Robert Bolton is still sharing stuff about the Goldeneye Workprint and sharing the same 10 second clip and saying “oh I don’t have access to it” when asked where to find it or if he can share it. Who knows if that WP even exists either.
MGM took down my Mega link. All videos about it on my Youtube channel are now unlisted. PM me for details
Wow, never heard of this until now… then again, after the Superman movies and their alternate cuts for TV this isn’t surprising. I sent you a PM (if you can share a link), I hope you could find this material in good shape, I’ve seen a few clips and they don’t look good.
I did. I used upscaled footage from old VHS tapes and a few DVR recordings of the TV version that aired recently (within the past 2 years).
I’ll send it to you
Can someone PM a location for the original trilogy? English, please. Also, are any of these files Open matte? 16x9?
In terms of aspect ratio, the OT and Phantom Menace were shot in Anamorphic Widescreen, so no “open matte” versions exist. Even the 16x9 versions would be pan and scanned. Clones and Sith were shot digitally so there might be some full 1.78:1 shots out there. I can’t confirm that though I’m just guessing. Ep 7 has some IMAX shots but is also Anamorphic I think.
As some of the last batch of changes to the films were for the 3D releases, technically we did get them, from a certain point of view. 😉
Disney has all but abandoned 3D releases in the U.S. Only Marvel seems to be bucking that trend though.
Yes that’s right, they have CG Yoda for consistency’s sake (a change I don’t hate but definitely isn’t necessary), and updated “force speed” effects if I remember (among other things). But I’m talking more of the 3D itself, which aside from the pod race and space scenes looked more like a shoebox diorama than anything.
Also I read somewhere the 3D versions of Clones and Sith were completed and screened. But unlike Phantom Menace which was advertised and hyped up, the latter 2 prequels were screened like one time each at one theater and then quickly forgotten about.
I wonder if the 3D versions of the prequel movies will be included, or as separate releases? (Or at all, I saw TPM in 3D and it looked pretty bad aside from the pod race)
Hmmm This 1.77:1 might actually be a stretched 1.66:1 image. Once I get the new dvd, I will post some comparison screenshots.
The French DVD is 1.77:1. Checking it now. Slightly more info on top and bottom. The opening title sequence is windowboxed in 1:66.1.
I got one from overseas that was 1.77:1. I can share it too. But this one is the R1 special edition from 2002 (not the 2000 release), which is listed on many sites as being 1.66:1, including Amazon and eBay.
Getting a dvd of Golden Gun soon that is supposedly 1.66:1. Will check it to see if it’s more open than the Laserdisc or Blu Ray
Naked gun has never been released with its original mono aside from ld/vhs
The 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu Ray at least has the original sound effects. But it’s mixed very weird, the music is VERY loud and overpowers the dialogue
When the “Ultimate Edition” of the (then 20) 007 movies came out, weren’t those movies already in 4k before they were scaled down to DVD and Blu Ray? They did have a “4k Restoration” credit at the end of some of those movies I remember. And in one of the making of segments 4k came up once or twice. I can’t imagine they did new scans, maybe the original Blu Rays and DVDs were heavily compressed (or DNR’d to death in the case of the Brosnan Movies).
Also GE 35mm is beautiful. Thank you so much
Found my old Live and Let Die TBS broadcast from 1991. It appears to be a mix of Open Matte and Pan and Scan. Here’s a few comparison shots. (the 1.78:1 blu ray is the Blue rectangle) Some of the movie has more info on top and bottom. Some of it (shown in the 4th screenshot) is just pan and scan: 
There’s also several spots were you can see the literal top of the frame/matte
Looks like a 1.66:1 version of either movies would be the most “open” release
Also like my laserdiscs, shoot me a pm if you want an MP4 of the broadcast
I’m watching Scarface on AMC right now, and it sounds like they’ve changed the sound effects for the guns.
The new Scarface mix sounds OK with a good sound system, but the original mix is king. Especially during the final shootout and the drug deal gone wrong.
IIRC one of the DVD releases has a 5.1 mix with the original sound effects intact. And I think someone said it but yes the 2.0 Stereo mix is on the blu-ray
Thanks for the clarification and the offer, that’s very nice of you. Yeah, count me in, I would definitely like to see this version. It was very likely the version that I would have seen on ITV (UK) during the 80s but I didn’t pay that much attention to Bond films back then. 😃
What’s your verdict on the 1.66:1 LD’s vs the DVDs and Blu-ray releases, out of curiosity?
I’ll have to compare the 1.66:1 LDs but if I remember I think they are similar if not the same. (LD might have slightly different color timing)
I compared The CBSFOX Laserdisc of Live and Let Die against the current Blu Ray and the LD has squeezed the titles to 4:3 as well as the opening gunbarrel. The rest of the movie is pan and scan and a pretty poor transfer to boot unfortunately.
I don’t know how accurate these anecdotes are, especially given the myths regarding Dr No but perhaps others can clarify?
I own that laserdisc of Thunderball and I can confirm all those things that were changed in later releases are in there. (LD is missing a scene with Bond and the massuse after Lippe burns, alternate unddubbed lines from Largo, the shark line, manta Ray, alternate end music) it’s all there. I can rip it and share with anyone who wants it
I also have the 1.66:1 laserdiscs of Dr. No, Russia, and Goldfinger
Just got the Casino Royale Fullscreen DVD in the mail today. Unfortunately I can confirm that it is cropped.
Weird, at least one shot I remember was opened up in Casino Royale FS from watching it years ago, in the opening when Bond and the guy are talking in the office and they would be on the very right and left of the screen.
Hopefully am getting the laserdisc of LALD soon so I can rip and see if any of it’s open matte or pan and scan, the Blu Ray is at least 1.78:1 I think. I have a JP Full Screen LD of Russia with love so I can check it as well. I have the 1982 Dr No LD, but I guess it’s already been stated that it’s pan and scan. I’ll check my VHSs of 007 as well
AFAIK the open matte 007 movies are:
Golden Eye on 1.33:1 DVD
Casino Royale on 1.33:1 DVD
Skyfall on 1.78:1 HDTV
and of course as you stated in the first post,
Quantum of Solace on 1.78:1 HDTV
and as SilverWook said,
Casino Royale on 1.78:1 PSP(curious to see the latter!)
not aware of other titles, but as some of them were released in 1.66:1 and 1.78:1, it is quite possible they were released in open matte - Skyfall and Quantum of Solace are 2.39:1 yet available in open matte, so… 😉
Goldeneye was shot in anamorphic wide screen, the 1.33:1 dvd is definitely Pan and Scanned. The 4x3 Casino Royale DVD is open matte though. A lot of the older 007 movies have open matte versions on old releases though. The first 3 movies’ THX dvd releases from 1997 have 1.33:1 open matte versions I think. The 1.66:1 Blu Rays of those first 3 movies show more on the top and sides than most older wide screen releases. The Full Screen laserdisc and VHS releases of Live And Let Die and Golden Gun are open matte if I remember correctly (since they were 1.85:1 as opposed to 2.35:1). I have the laserdisc of Golden Gun, but its sped way up to fit on one disc. I don’t have a spleen account but if you PM me I can share a rip of my laserdisc of Man With the Golden Gun if anyone wants it
OMG, this sounds awesome dude, I was gonna do something like this myself for my little brother who loves the RoboCop cartoon, he’s 6 so obviously I couldnt show him the movie, but unfortunately I could only find short clips and not all of the tv cuts, so instead I, again unfortunately, decided that it was best and easier to just cut the few seconds of strong language and violence from RoboCop 3, because he is 6 I just thought that he probably wouldnt care about the story as much, and I was right, that being said I would really like the oppitunity to watch this edit, is it available somewhere?
Send me a PM
I have the 1981 Laserdisc which is the theatrical version I believe.
Interesting! Goldfinger is among my favourite Bond’s and films in general. 😃
What’s your source for the information on the UK version?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/alternateversions
and this 16mm clip on eBay which I can’t afford: https://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-IB-TECH-Film-CLIP-GOLDFINGER-1964-James-Bond-003-Now-with-DIAMONDS/113659583367
I want to do some sort of restoration/preservation of this version of the movie. There are 3 main differences that are not in any release version (that I know of) that would be easy to put in:
-The timer on the bomb in Fort Knox stopping at 003 seconds as opposed to 007. This explains Bond saying “3 more ticks and Goldfinger would have hit the jackpot!”
-When the plane is out of control going down, there is only one green dot going down on the radar Felix is looking at as opposed to 2 in the general release (implying Bond and Pussy escaped with a parachute )
-The end credits erroneously say “James Bond will be back On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” this was changed to Thunderball for the general release since Thunderball actually followed it.
Does anyone know if an official home video release has any of these original scenes? I have the oldest Laserdisc release and it doesn’t have these original scenes. I know the end credits saying OHMSS is on a tv print floating around the internet, but the other 2 I don’t know.
TiddySprinklesPimpBillion said:
I have the Blu Ray of Godfather 1 and it has the Mono as an extra audio track.
The USA does but the others from around the planet don’t.
Huh, I’ll see if I can upload it to MEGA. I also have the mono laserdisc audio but it’s nowhere as clean due to laser rot.
I just got the recent Death Wish 1 blu-ray and surprisingly its Mono has been kept all these years. The 2001 DVD release had abysmal sounding audio. Almost like it was run through a noise removal several times over, it was tinny as hell and grading on the ears. The blu ray sounds MUCH better