Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Comedy, Family, Romance • 1h 52m
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, Jack Weston, John Harding, Margaret Lindsay, Carmen Phillips, Mary Patton, Charles Herbert, Stanley Livingston, Flip Mark, Baby Gellert, Bess Flowers, Milton Frome, Leoda Richards, Benny Rubin, Irene Tedrow, Barbara Aberle, Eddie Baker, Mary Benoit, Bobette Bentley, Gail Bonney, Lovyss Bradley, John Brennan, Ella Mae Brown, Jhean Burton, Lorraine Caldwell, Kathryn Card, Jack Chefe, Richard Collier, Joseph Cronin, Oliver Cross, Lucille Curtis, Robert Darin, Frank Delfino, Burt Douglas, Amy Douglass, Joan Dupuis, Estelle Etterre, Duke Fishman, Donald Foster, Marianne Gaba, Frank Gardner, Kenneth Gibson, James Gonzalez, Stuart Hall, Christian Haren, Stuart Holmes, Kenner G. Kemp, Marina Koshetz, Karyn Kupcinet, Perk Lazelle, Peter Leeds, Len Lesser, Larry McCormick, Claire Meade, Harold Miller, Paul Power, Paul Ravel, John Rice, Clark Ross, Cosmo Sardo, Charles Seel, Norman Stevans, Guy Stockwell, Lomax Study, Hal Taggart, Harry Tenbrook, Geraldine Wall, Joseph Waring, Ira L. Westley, Frank Wilcox
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4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Overview
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.
Director: Charles Walters
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray is a remaster from the original VistaVision camera negaitve, FiM encode
The original mono sounds good. The Atmos remix is a mixed bag, music performances are sourced from magnetic stereo recordings and sound great, but mono dialogue/effectshas undergone destructive noise reduction and unnecessary EQ, so the jumps in fidelity are incredibly jarring.
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
Director: Lloyd Bacon
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
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Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Eureka UK are considering doing a 4K and actively exploring the possibility: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24363810&postcount=264
Wonderful underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion, but NexSpec encode has clipped highlights with the occasional blockiness. The Criterion Blu-Ray, sourced from their 4K remaster, ironically makes for a more consistent and overall pleasing experience.
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Director: Terry Jones
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The Criterion BD, which is sold separately, has a clunky encode unlike the Criterion UHD, even if it plays better in motion than the caps would suggest. Still, provided you're equipped to play 4K discs, UHD or bust for this one. https://slow.pics/c/hmDYlKgE
Director: Paul Leni
Theatrical/Original A negative: MoC Blu-ray
European C/D negative but better picture quality: Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
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From DVDBeaver: The MoC Blu-ray is scanned from the American A negative, as opposed to the European C or D negatives used by Photoplay and others (Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray), so it is identical with the film US audiences saw in 1927
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In addition, the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has sepia tinting throughout while the MoC Blu-ray has yellow for normal scenes, blue for night scenes, and some even green tintings.
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