In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Comedy, Music, Romance • 1h 42m
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, Buster Keaton, Marcia Van Dyke, Lillian Bronson, John Alban, Bette Arlen, William Bailey, Mary Bayless, Edward Biby, George Boyce, Chester Clute, Jack Deery, Carli Elinor, Antonio Filauri, William Forrest, Joe Gilbert, Everett Glass, James Gonzalez, Eula Guy, Eddie Jackson, Joi Lansing, Peggy Leon, Carl M. Leviness, Frank Mayo, Liza Minnelli, Howard M. Mitchell, Rhea Mitchell, Alberto Morin, Joe Niemeyer, Anna Q. Nilsson, Anne O'Neal, Constance Purdy, Arthur Rosenstein, Clark Ross, Ralph Sanford, Jeffrey Sayre, Charles Smith, Bobby Valentine, Joan Wells, Josephine Whittell
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 4 months ago
Overview
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
Undercrank Blu-ray new 2K restoration
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: John Ford
Sources: ibb.co (opens in a new tab)
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
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion 4K Blu-ray (included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Sony release without the filtering)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Comparison between Sony and Criterion.
Mono: 1994 LaserDisc (marginally, unfiltered) or Criterion 4K Blu-ray (filtered)
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
UK Transmission 4K Blu-ray in January 2027
Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray
The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Ralph Bakshi
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