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Film Noir Foundation's magazine Noir City announced that their most recent restorations - Woman on the Run and Too Late for Tears, will be released on DVD by Flicker Alley. It's not clear if these will be blu-ray or DVD discs and no date set yet.

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Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Pre-order up.

A full film listing, for the lazy:

Manhatta (1920-21) by Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
Anémic cinema (filmed 1924-25, released 1926) by Rrose Sélavy a.k.a. Marcel Duchamp
The Life and Death of 9413–A Hollywood Extra (1927) by Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Skyscraper Symphony (1929) by Robert Florey
Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner
A Bronx Morning (1931) by Jay Leyda
Lot in Sodom (1930-32, released 1933) by J.S. Watson, Jr., Melville Webber, Alec Wilder, Remsen Wood, Bernard O’Brien.
Poem 8 (1932-33) by Emlen Etting
Thimble Theater (c. 1938, unfinished until 1968) by Joseph Cornell
Tarentella (1940) by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
The Pursuit of Happiness (1940) by Rudy Burckhardt
1941 (1941) by Francis Lee
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) by Maya Deren, A. Hackenschmied
Motion-Painting, No. 1 (1947) by Oskar Fischinger
Meditation on Violence (1948) by Maya Deren
In the Street (filmed 1945-46, released 1948, 1952) by Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee.
Abstronic (1952) by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Hurry, Hurry! (1957) by Marie Menken
N.Y., N.Y. (filmed 1949-57, released 1958) by Francis Thompson
A MOVIE (1958) by Bruce Conner
Re-Entry (1964) by Jordan Belson
Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness) (1966) by Bruce Baillie
Excerpt from Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969) by Jonas Mekas
Our Lady of the Sphere (1969) by Lawrence Jordan
Love It / Leave It (1970) by Tom Palazzolo
DL2 (Disintegration Line #2) (1970) by Lawrence Janiak
Transport (1970) by Amy Greenfield
Seasons… (2002) by Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage

I'm particularly excited to see the Fischinger in HD and the Conner on any form of home video at all.

Does Flicker Alley send an e-mail for when a pre-order has shipped?

I pre-ordered that Vertov set as soon as it popped up on there, and the street date was yesterday. They even sent me an e-mail promoting that it came out yesterday. But my status still says 'Awaiting Processing'. Just wondering how long after street dates does pre-orders actually ship from them.

I didn't get a shipping confirmation with the Mack Sennett set, it just showed up one day unannounced, so I wouldn't panic yet

Thanks for the reply.

Where are all the speckles and dirt? And what about that sharpness? Seriously, an unbelievable improvement, it seems.

Why is this Blu-Ray only? The same problem with the BFI disc ...

Should we assume the Dziga Vertov release is exactly the same as the French release? Or are they different discs?

manicsounds wrote:Should we assume the Dziga Vertov release is exactly the same as the French release? Or are they different discs?

Don't have the French release, but I have my FA copy, and it gives you an option for French menu or English menu at the start, with French being the first option. So I'm going to assume they are the same.

Loving this release btw.

That's an amazing upgrade, yet there's a lot of digital compression squares in the backgrounds (check the first two blu-ray only captures)

Looks like the same menu than my Lobster set, and looking at the caps, it has the same compression issues due to non-optimized black levels (see the caps X01).

Is it safe to assume the BFI BD will have the same contents?

I assume the BFI would have the commentary carried over, and I think it's been said the score will be the Nyman score instead of the Alloy Orchestra.

They'll also definitely sort out that YouTube style compression, unless it's somehow baked into the source.

HTF, Ron Epstein and DVDBeaver on 3-D Rarities.

For those who perhaps wouldn't usually consider something like this, I was surprised to learn there are 4 newly restored Norman McLaren short films featured on this set (Now is the Time, Around is Around, O Canada and Twirligig).

Oh wow, I don't think any of those were on the Image set.

Now is the Time and Around is Around were, but here they're obviously newly restored in HD and 3-D. The other two may be making their home video debuts. Being shorts, I suspect their 3-D aspects were intended to be the main attraction, so it's nice to see them released on a set like this, because they otherwise might have been excluded from a dedicated HD McLaren set (certainly in 3-D anyway).

I'm still not sure either of those two were included in the Image set. I don't remember them, but not trusting my memory I checked the alphabetical and chronological indexes in the booklet and didn't see them.

Gregory wrote:I'm still not sure either of those two were included in the Image set. I don't remember them, but not trusting my memory I checked the alphabetical and chronological indexes in the booklet and didn't see them.

This was my reference, but it could be wrong.

The stereoscopic restorations on the McLaren shorts are stunning. The original multi-track audio - as heard at the Festival of Britain on NOW IS THE TIME and AROUND IS AROUND - has been restored as well.

Is this the first release of his work on Blu-ray?

However, these wonderful shorts are not the first examples of 3-D animation. There is an animated segment in KELLEY'S PLASTICON PICTURES from 1922, possibly done by John Norling and/or Jacob Leventhal while at the Bray Animation Studios.

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EddieLarkin wrote:For those who perhaps wouldn't usually consider something like this, I was surprised to learn there are 4 newly restored Norman McLaren short films featured on this set (Now is the Time, Around is Around, O Canada and Twirligig).

FWIW: O Canada is credited to Evelyn Lambart, and Twirligig is credited to Gretta Ekman. Both were frequent collaborators of McLaren. Lambart was an important animator in her own right. Ekman was blacklisted for her political activity before she had the opportunity to become a major name.

I bought this release primarily for these NFB shorts. O Canada, though brief, is an absolute stunner, one of the most inventive uses of 3-D I've seen.