StudioCanal Britain 4K Blu-ray

2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray vs 2017 Sony 4K Blu-ray (20th annivesary) vs 2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray (Luc Besson Box Set). The first two have totally different texture.

• StudioCanal: More natural looking. Better defined grain. The white balance is rather yellow/orange. Some say it is closer to the original theatrical release.

• 2017 Sony: More vibrant and impactful. The white balance is rather neutral. While color noise and grain can look busy because it had been sharpened and had micro-contrast boosted.

• 2025 Sony: Supposedly an improved version of the 2017 release? Shows around 20mbps-higher overall video bitrate. caps

2025 Sony US 4K Blu-ray has the original 5.1

Disc info of the box set discs. This film have recieved multiple encode/versions in different regions over the years. The 2017 Germany4K Blu-ray is encoded differently than the 2017 Sony but not better. Also, the same can be said to 2024 France Gaumont 4K Blu-ray while comparing to the 2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-Ray omits all the extras from previous releases, being barebones.

Criterion Blu-ray

Criterion Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and much better than older Arrow Blu-ray and the Arrow reissue is slightly more cut-off than the Criterion Blu-ray too

Flicker Alley DVD

Flicker Alley DVD

Also available on Library of Congress SD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2017604960/ but the Flicker Alley DVD is probably much superior

Kino Lorber Blu-ray 4K restoration

Periscope Blu-ray

Periscope Blu-ray

Also available in Kino Lorber The Cold Blue Blu-ray as HD extras, or available on streaming

8min excerpt seems to be the only video version in circulation: Film Preserve Official SD Streaming https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/marian-anderson-the-lincoln-memorial-concert-excerpt-1939

US National Archives has the full 29:35 audio recording https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1729137

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Kino Lorber Blu-ray subtitles are very bad and missing a lot of sentences

Official SD Streaming https://vimeo.com/20262650?fl=pl&fe=vl

Official SD Streaming https://vimeo.com/20262650?fl=pl&fe=vl

Film Preserve Official SD Streaming https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/t1-cologne-from-the-diary-of-ray-and-esther-1939

Film Preserve Official SD Streaming https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/t1-cologne-from-the-diary-of-ray-and-esther-1939

First Run Features OOP DVD

First Run Features OOP DVD otherwise available in SD Streaming

Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/mp76000380/

Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/mp76000380/

UCLA Official HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mblxjfh5kE

UCLA Official HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mblxjfh5kE

Warner Archive DVD

Warner Archive DVD

HD Streaming

HD Streaming

Film Preserve official SD Streaming https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/t1-the-land-beyond-the-sunset-1912

Film Preserve official SD Streaming https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/t1-the-land-beyond-the-sunset-1912

Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2001646000/

Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2001646000/

All BDs are similar. Sony Blu-ray probably best encoding but cuts off last few seconds of music

Britain Curzon Blu-ray in July

All BDs are similar. Sony Blu-ray probably best encoding but cuts off last few seconds of music

Korea Blu-ray has less limiting, proper 24-bit audio, and does not cut off the last few second of music

US National Archive Official 720p Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEwGmjhquU

US National Archive Official 720p Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEwGmjhquU is better than the earlier copies like the one on Internet Archive by FDR Presidential Library

SD Streaming from Film Preserve https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/master-hands-1936

SD Streaming from Film Preserve https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/master-hands-1936 is significantly better than the supposedly 4K scan in Internet Archive

Library of Congress HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/collections/films-of-westinghouse-works-1904/about-this-collection/

Library of Congress HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/collections/films-of-westinghouse-works-1904/about-this-collection/ is a significantly better restoration compared to previous Film Preserve restoration