That's Entertainment! (1974)
Documentary, Family, Music • 2h 15m
Director: Jack Haley Jr.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Kay Armen, Ray Bolger, Virginia Bruce, Jack Buchanan, Leslie Caron, Carleton Carpenter, Cyd Charisse, Maurice Chevalier, Joan Crawford, Virginia Dale, Vic Damone, Jimmy Durante, Deanna Durbin, Buddy Ebsen, Nelson Eddy, Cliff Edwards, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Kathryn Grayson, Virginia Grey, Jack Haley, Jean Harlow, Bernadene Hayes, Lena Horne, Lottice Howell, Van Johnson, Allan Jones, Louis Jourdan, Howard Keel, Lorraine Krueger, Bert Lahr, Mario Lanza, Jeanette MacDonald, Joan Marsh, Tony Martin, Douglas McPhail, Ann Miller, Robert Montgomery, Natalie Moorhead, Dennis Morgan, Jules Munshin, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Margaret O'Brien, Eleanor Powell, Jane Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paula Stone, Russ Tamblyn, William Warfield, Esther Williams, Leon Ames, Edward Arnold, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joe E. Brown, Xavier Cugat, Arlene Dahl, Lili Damita, Gloria DeHaven, Errol Flynn, Betty Garrett, Greer Garson, Hermione Gingold, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn, Claude Jarman Jr., Jennifer Jones, Buster Keaton, Angela Lansbury, Carmen Miranda, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Morgan, George Murphy, Conrad Nagel, J. Carrol Naish, Reginald Owen, Walter Pidgeon, Selena Royle, Norma Shearer, Red Skelton, Sidney Toler, Audrey Totter, Spencer Tracy, Robert Young
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Overview
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: John Ford
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Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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Director: Steve James
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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
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While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
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