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S ONY ae ju PELRIOMTIENCATTIEONANINNOTYEIRNFGERECNOCPEY tee | Pa a ana Sherwood cDiUReIsNG\u201cPBLArYBACK COFKRENTBEDOMOVIEpSa THE A X DIGITAL STATE OF THE ART UNIT WORKS AUTOMATICALLY =) BEY WITH ANY TV, VCR, VHS OR BETA REMOVING ALL FLASH- ES, STREAKS, JITTERS AND OTHER EMBEDDED JAMMING PROCESSES GIVING YOU A CRYSTAL CLEAR PICTURE. IN MICHIGAN CALL 1-313-453-4750 i ccaeuienasaniiadenimemanti Call with an Order or Questions -_ and Ask for a Free Catalog! \u00a7\u00a7CNO REDCAIRDTFEES! aver Circle 37 on Reader Service Card. tie","BY BRUCE EDER Lost in the vaults\u2014 10 films that video forgot Is it possible every old film worth releas- story changed. Reportedly, the film is no sitive and articulate Technicolor ing on video has already been released? longer under consideration because its Lagoon, starring Jean Simmons and How many films can there be left that depiction of Native Americans isn\u2019t Donald Houston. It hasn\u2019t been seen people actually want to see? After all, politically correct. Either way, Annie there\u2019s even an Edward D. Wood Jr. tril- stays holstered. since the Shields version was released. ogy on laserdisc, and MGM\/UA is get- Laserdisc releases can also create ting down to its Mario Lanza catalog. Samuel Goldwyn\u2019s final production The truth is there are still major, award- was Otto Preminger\u2019s adaptation of special problems because of the high winning movies with serious followings standards the medium demands. Three that have yet to appear on laserdisc 15 George Gershwin\u2019s Porgy and Bess years into the home video era; some (1959), starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Flash Gordon serials starring Buster have yet to appear on tape. Often, the Crabbe-Flash Gordon (1936), Flash films\u2019 owners are unwilling to give them Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. It last Gordon\u2019s Trip To Mars (1938) and aired on TV in the \u201970s before its rights Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe a new audience. Sometimes, it\u2019s more complicated. Here at 10 titles that teverted to the Gershwin estate. The (1940)\u2014are the most popular serials deserve to be more widely seen, but that Goldwyn company would love to reissue ever made. Conquers the Universe is also will have to beat the odds to do so. it, but the Gershwin estate doesn\u2019t the most beautiful. But a fire in a New York storage facility in the \u201970s The 1981 science-fiction \u00a2 think it\u2019s good enough to release. In destroyed the original fine-grain nitrate anthology Heavy Metal, long |. theory, the original opera goes out of prints of all three serials, and the origi- a cult favorite, is the only film copyright in 2010, at which point the produced by Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman that wey nial negatives are long gone. hasn\u2019t made it to video in any incarnation. The reason is its Hearst Video recently released soundtrack, which uses dozens of well-known rock songs. VHS versions of the serials, Back when the movie was made, licensing agreements for which each run more than 240 songs never included their use on videocassette or laserdisc. minutes. But it\u2019s not clear the Now, clearing the rights to all materials will support a higher those songs could \u201ckeep a lawyer busy for 10 years,\u201d quality laserdisc release. according to a former Columbia Pictures home video Nor is a laserdisc release executive. Replacing the songs with substitutes, an alternative used for likely for David O. Selznick\u2019s the video release of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, among other films, 1948 Portrait of Jennie, star- would be self-defeating since the songs in Heavy Metal embody so much of the TRS ting Jennifer Jones and Joseph movie\u2019s appeal. =_ Labor Lost? Cotten. One of Hollywood's MGM\/UA and Turner Entertain- \u2018: 2 great fantasies, it\u2019s out on ment have had numerous requests for a Joseph videocassette and was on video release of the Irving Berlin musi- Cotten and cal Annie Get Your Gun, a 1950 film FoxVideo\u2019s \u201cupcoming\u201d laser- that hasn\u2019t been seen in any form since Jennifer disc list for four years. At one the \u201970s. Rights to the legendary musi- point, this writer was asked to cal reverted to Berlin decades ago, but Jones in bad blood between Berlin and the stu- Portrait of dio, which abruptly cancelled work on Jennie. his bio-pic, Say It With Music, kept select a sidebreak that would Annie off the market. Six years ago MGM\/UA's George Feltenstein said the have permitted the last 28 problem was money. He felt Berlin\u2019s rep- Gershwin estate will lose the right to minutes, which includes a spectacular resentatives wanted more than Annie control the movie. So fans should hang supernatural storm sequence, to be was worth. But when excerpts turned in there. up in That\u2019s Entertainment Part 3, the mastered in CAV. But in 1993, Joan Fontaine snared an Oscar FoxVideo programmer David Goldstein nomination for her performance in The said Portrait of Jennie will never come Constant Nymph (1943), a drama out on disc because FoxVideo wasn\u2019t based on Margaret Kennedy\u2019s book. happy with the quality of its master, and Rights to the movie, and to a 1933 British version starring Elisabeth remastering it \u201cwould cost more than the film is worth on disc.\u201d Bergner, reverted to the Kennedy estate A similar problem afflicts Selznick\u2019s long ago. Neither it nor Turner, says Duel In the Sun (1946), also starring Feltenstein, are interested in its re- Jones. It has been on and off Fox\u2019s list of release. upcoming laserdiscs more than once. Remakes of classic pictures often Right now, it\u2019s off because the 138- cause the originals to be pulled from cir- minute lust-in-the-dust Technicolor culation. This happened to The Blue epic just doesn\u2019t seem worth remaster- Lagoon. Most of us have suffered ing. Some of these films may yet show through at least a few minutes of the up because companies can be resource- 1980 version starring Brook Shields and ful. Val Lewton\u2019s The Ghost Ship (1944), Christopher Atkins. But in 1949, 16 a film long \u201clost\u201d in a lawsuit, turned up years before Shields was born, England\u2019s on videotape in 1993. They all deserve Rank Organisation released a more sen- a better fate. . 98 VIDEO MAY 1995","Lighting Conditions Berore You Spenp 20 Grano On A pre Home THEATER, ah x. Sart Wit SOMETHING FREE. is Projection Method The ultimate goal of a home theater is audio and visual realism. 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