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Almost Famous (2000)

Director: Cameron Crowe

Best English-Friendly:

UK Sony 4K Blu-ray (HMV Exclusive with both cuts)

Best Video:

UK Sony 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(HMV Exclusive with both cuts, slightly better encoding than the US Paramount)

Best Audio:

US Paramount

Audio Notes:

US Paramount is 24 bit compared to Sony's 16 bit

Additional Info:

US Paramount has more extras

The Crowd (1928)

Director: King Vidor

Video format: DVD

Upcoming Release:

Flicker Alley new 4K restoration

Best Video:

2013 Bach Films DVD

4.1

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Director: Amy Heckerling

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is significantly better than Universal Blu-ray see caps

The Court Jester (1955)

Directors: Melvin Frank & Norman Panama

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

4K Streaming with Dolby Vision

Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)

Director: John Sayles

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MGM DVD

Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)

Director: Oskar Fischinger

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Center for Visual Music Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films DVD

Little Fugitive (1953)

Directors: Ray Ashley & Ruth Orkin & Morris Engel

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray or France Carlotta Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparison available

Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Various HD Streaming including Pathé

Sources: britishpathe.com (opens in a new tab)

Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)

Directors: Robert M. Fresco & Denis Sanders

Best English-Friendly & Video:

National Archives DVD

Verbena trágica (1938)

Director: Charles Lamont

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Official Library of Congress HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6NiQfa6E18

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Topaz (1945)

Director: Dave Tatsuno

Video format: SD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

SD Streaming by University of Utah or Internet Archive

Sources: collections.lib.utah.edu (opens in a new tab) · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

Pull My Daisy (1959)

Directors: Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie

Best English-Friendly:

UK LUX DVD

Best Video:

UK LUX DVD or Germany Steidl OOP DVD

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)

Director: Connie Field

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Clarity Films DVD

Video Notes:

Clarity Films DVD remastered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2013

Invaders from Mars (1953)

Director: William Cameron Menzies

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK BFI 4K Blu-ray or Ignite 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(BFI has more extras)

Additional Info:

BFI has more extras

3.1

Frank Film (1973)

Directors: Frank Mouris & Caroline Mouris

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Five by Two: Five Animated Shorts OOP DVD

Jarhead (2005)

Director: Sam Mendes

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Universal 4K Blu-ray see caps: The film was finished as a 4K DI in 2005. The same master was now used for the 4K disc with a new HDR grade supervised by Roger Deakins. The old Blu-ray was badly encoded, the 4K looks much better

Best Audio:

No original audio on Universal 4K Blu-ray. The Atmos remix is unusually bad. Blu-ray DTS-HD 5.1 for original mix.

3.6

Minority Report (2002)

Director: Steven Spielberg

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray, caps #1, caps #2

Best Audio:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Cinema DTS-ES

3.8

The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

Director: Basil Dearden

Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Universal PAL DVD

Audio Notes:

(caveat: it's missing a minute of footage, plus usual PAL speed-up)

All Blu-ray tracks originate from the same transfer, but with strong noise gating and terrible EQ, adding a compensatory bass and treble boost, sounding boomy and accentuating the hiss despite less detail.