Building Balsa Wood Bridges

Arianna (Love In The Afternoon, Billy Wilder, 1957)

Flamingo vs Warner

Technical

Flamingo Video:
Length: 124 '(4% PAL speedup ), b / w.

area code: Region 2, PAL.
Format:
1.82:1 OAR Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0.

Languages: English, Italian.

Subtitles: Italian.

Publication date: 12/01/2009.
Robes: Unilibro .

Warner:
Length: 130 ', b / w.

All Regions Region 1, 4, NTSC.
Format:
1.80:1 OAR Audio: Dolby Digital 1.0.

Languages: English.

Subtitles: English, English, French, Portuguese.

Publication date: 08/01/2002. Place
vend eng: Amazon.co.uk , Amazon.com

output recently, is one of the worst Flamingo. Video insufficient, which tends to master non-restored green, traces of chrome everywhere, spuntinature to no end at all times. Sometimes it has problems of stability, is opaque and generally not very well defined. OAR of 1.85, however, respected, and good audio track including the original. Usual extra Flamingo. All this is obviously not enough to lift the situation. Not recommended, for sure. Avoid.

ps: from 40:42 to 40:47 minutes, the DVD presents a case of Flamingo freezing : playback stops for a few seconds, then starts again, causing a temporary spixellamento (thanks to riki333 for the alert!). In fact, the defect is present and the analysis made on the sector of the disk, it is the classic "bad sector". Not at issue, to say the least.

Update 23/2/2011, Warner : Having recently taken over the Flamingo, I did not remember it was so mediocre, so I decided to try the trusty Warner, and there is no history. Not so much a definition in the sequences darkest (I expected a bit 'more to Warner, in this sense), but how much brightness, detail, and then, there's more! In more enlightened sequences (frame # 1 ), however, is immediately to the surface the next level. Even the contours are more defined and the general definition is perfect on many occasions - as I said before, less in others. But the greatest advantage lies in the restoration, removal of annoying traces of chromium in amounts on the master Flamingo. Obviously, there are coding errors. Even the sound is superior, more determined and better distributed. Extra zero. This is Warner in 2002, never reprinted, and now available separately cost is not very honest. There is an alternative, that this economic box.

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again from Warner

Trash Cans Attached Lid

Them (Them!, Gordon Douglas, 1954)

Technical

Warner (PAL):

Length: 89 '(4 % PAL speedup ), b / w.

area code: Region 2, 4, 5, PAL.
Format:
1.34:1 OAR Audio: Dolby Digital 1.0.

Languages: English, German, English.

Subtitles: English, English, French, German, greek, Swedish, Dutch, turkish, Finnish, Icelandic, Czech, Polish.

Date Released: 17/02/2003 - 2009 (reprint).
selling point: Amazon.co.uk

Although I have ten years on his shoulders, is a DVD that has nothing to envy the best Warner Bros. Frames really speak for themselves, a quality scary constant throughout the film. Difficult to see some spuntinatura. The sequence filmed in the cave, in the first part of the film, is the only one to suffer from artifacts and less definition. In the last sequence, in the cave, there is a more veiled and soft but deliberate . Almost no extra ma è normale. Non segnalo mai i trailer come veri extra, ma quello di Them! è una chicca!

Questo DVD NON include lingua italiana, eppure tutte le altre principali ci sono. Non so proprio chi detenga i diritti per l'Italia del film di Douglas, dato che in tutti questi anni nessuno si è mosso.

Extra: selected outtakes (3'); trailer (3').

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