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Turner Classic Movies is holding a vote (DVD decision) on 20 films that are candidates for new release on DVD. Being an older film buff (the films, not me). These films are all wonderful. You can vote for 5 of these out of the 20. None of these films incredibly have ever been released on DVD before. Among them is the sub classic (John Carpenter's guilty favorite and Howard Hughes's favorite, whom allegedly watched this film hundreds of times - private screenings of course) 'Ice Station Zebra' (1968). The wide screen version (up till now) has only been possible on laser disk format. If you have ever seen Ice Station Zebra in super panavision 2.38 to 1 ratio as I have on Laser disk and in it's original theatrical release on the big screen, it is an entirely different film visually.
Merriman and I have always asserted 'ISZ' has by far the most convincing looking control room visually (also the hum of the Nav. gyros), the easy 'relaxed alertness' mannerisms of the actors [see the film's first diving sequence] and other sets based on nuclear submarines. They even included some things in the sets considered getting warm (security wise) for 1968. Examples being the helms man and planes man using a 'road in the sea' (CONALOG) video display, and the appearance in some scenes on the surface of the WLR-1 ELINT system (the squat mast head with the stacked rings and the dipoles all around it's perimeter - very risque security wise for 1968).
By contrast 'The Hunt for Red October' sets are more 'Las Vegas'. The mirrored periscope Sean Connery looks through....more Las Vegas. More a caricature than reality. They wanted for security to not make anything look too realistic. Sadly they over-succeeded. I still laugh at Merriman's story when he was doing research for the great effects artist Greg Jien who did the miniatures for 'THFRO'. The USS Dallas has stern plane vertical stabs on it's tips because the art director said 'the Revell model' of the Los Angeles class had them. Revell must be right.... right? LOL! When only appearance and money in Hollywood are all important (is their anything else?), it is nice to know those who fool can also be fooled. Contrasting, remembering the film Ice Station Zebra then reading many books like 'Blind Man's Bluff', their is harmony there.
Also in the list is 'Test Pilot' (1938) and 'Captains of the Clouds' (1942) with James Cagney and the RCAF in majestic Technicolor! Aircraft buffs (IPMS?)of the 1937-1942 period will be blown away by the colors. Also 'Dive Bomber' (1938) if your interested in the flashy colors of USN aircraft of the late 1930's - also in Technicolor! .
Check out the list, you know what to do.
Steve Reichmuth
Edited By Dolphin on 1089184742
Merriman and I have always asserted 'ISZ' has by far the most convincing looking control room visually (also the hum of the Nav. gyros), the easy 'relaxed alertness' mannerisms of the actors [see the film's first diving sequence] and other sets based on nuclear submarines. They even included some things in the sets considered getting warm (security wise) for 1968. Examples being the helms man and planes man using a 'road in the sea' (CONALOG) video display, and the appearance in some scenes on the surface of the WLR-1 ELINT system (the squat mast head with the stacked rings and the dipoles all around it's perimeter - very risque security wise for 1968).
By contrast 'The Hunt for Red October' sets are more 'Las Vegas'. The mirrored periscope Sean Connery looks through....more Las Vegas. More a caricature than reality. They wanted for security to not make anything look too realistic. Sadly they over-succeeded. I still laugh at Merriman's story when he was doing research for the great effects artist Greg Jien who did the miniatures for 'THFRO'. The USS Dallas has stern plane vertical stabs on it's tips because the art director said 'the Revell model' of the Los Angeles class had them. Revell must be right.... right? LOL! When only appearance and money in Hollywood are all important (is their anything else?), it is nice to know those who fool can also be fooled. Contrasting, remembering the film Ice Station Zebra then reading many books like 'Blind Man's Bluff', their is harmony there.
Also in the list is 'Test Pilot' (1938) and 'Captains of the Clouds' (1942) with James Cagney and the RCAF in majestic Technicolor! Aircraft buffs (IPMS?)of the 1937-1942 period will be blown away by the colors. Also 'Dive Bomber' (1938) if your interested in the flashy colors of USN aircraft of the late 1930's - also in Technicolor! .
Check out the list, you know what to do.
Steve Reichmuth
Edited By Dolphin on 1089184742
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