Home Video History of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)

[@FatherJoe--NLO]

I never thought I'd listen to someone talk about aspect ratios and monoral soundtracks for 76 minutes and be sad when it was over. Outstanding!

[@TheVid54]

I feel exactly the same way about another Walter Wanger production, Joseph L. Mankiewicz' CLEOPATRA, clearly among the most colossally cursed films of the studio era. I've given up on the idea of ever seeing the 6-hour, 2-part version of that notoriously expensive epic that Mankiewicz nearly worked himself to death on. The idea that Darryl F. Zanuck recut the film and threw away all the 70mm Todd-AO material he removed is akin to what was done to Welles by RKO on THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. It seems producer Walter Wanger himself was somewhat cursed when you consider his career biography.

[@tyrannozilla]

Have you considered covering all the various releases of 1953's "The War of The Worlds"?

[@HoorayTV21]

The first Republic version you show says on the back cover that the transfer comes from the original negative, believe it or not.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

My first introduction to Perspecta was Kurosawa. I also don't have a CED player. If I had one, I would get the James Bond releases which appeared on CED a full year before they appeared on Laserdisc.

[@hardnine]

And thanks for this..keepn me sane

[@wunderkind56]

I didn't understand why 2:00 Superscope would be necessarily worse then 1:85, thinking it was just a different matte. After watching a video by Callum Vandenberg it was apparent that there is much more image manipulation involved with Superscope than just a matte change.

[@tyrannozilla]

Speaking of 2007's "Invasion," Arrow Video is gonna give it a collector's edition 4K release.

[@hardnine]

Yaa im first..