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[George]

That's pretty darned cool, JMK!

[bk]

MattH, it's fine to disagree, that's what makes horse racing - however, all I can tell you is while you may find the color saturated it is nothing like IB Technicolor.  I provided a link yesterday to a screencap from an IB print of the Cinerama version - did you look at it?  If not, why don't you?  I don't have to say anything because that picture is worth a thousand words.  I'm not saying the color isn't good, and it's certainly not a disaster like The Searchers, but it could and should have been better, but the people doing these transfers refuse to listen to people who are asking them to PLEASE use the IB reference prints and let me tell you, my boy, there were people telling them as regards this particular film.

[bk]

I'm all viewed out, I'm afraid.  Although, I do have a DVD here, a rough video of the Kevin and Sean show from Great Neck - not professional, but at least a video record.

[bk]

However, I agree that it's the best that How The West Was Won has ever looked on home video - it's nice and sharp.  I was disappointed in the sound, frankly, which is mastered low (I had to crank the volume to get it to sound punchy) - apparently, they futzed with the mix, which, I'm told had VERY directional dialogue which has somewhat been smoothed out.  I can only say that when one saw this at the time of release in a real Cinerama theater with that seven channel sound it was mind-boggling.  No one is mentioning the severe loss in quality during the rear projection shots and many shots within those sequences - reason being those were not shot with the Cinerama camera but in 70mm - the Cinerama panels were then extracted from the 70mm, but with a generation loss.

[bk]

Mr. Strohmaier and I discussed at length the problems which will probably prevent Brothers Grimm from getting a nice DVD release.  And he told me some very illuminating things about the awful sound problem when they showed West at the Dome last Sunday.

[bk]

Another half-hour sans posts and to that I say phooey.

[bk]

I really enjoyed my two count them two tuna sandwiches and I had some sour cream and onion Quakes with them, and then had cantaloupe and honeydew melon balls for dessert.

[bk]

I am my own frenzy.

[bk]

Make that one hour.  

[DERBRUCER]

Am I expected to do the late night heavy lifting...again?

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

One each blue sky for Mr. Kimmel:


(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

A cactus wren looks for insects in a Mexican elderberry bush in the Irvine Open Space Reserve near Laguna Canyon Road. The bird is about 8 inches long and nests in cactus and thorny plants that grow in the hilly area.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

IKE is one BIG storm!



der Brucer

IKE is actually not quite as strong as predicted

[DERBRUCER]

However....
ASSOCIATED PRESS

EXPERTS: GIANT IKE'S SIZE DRIVING MASSIVE STORM SURGE

HOUSTON —  Hurricane Ike's gargantuan size — not its strength — will likely push an extra large storm surge inland in a region already prone to it, experts said Thursday.

Ike's giant girth means more water piling up on Texas and Louisiana coastal areas for a longer time, topped with bigger waves. So storm surge — the prime killer in hurricanes — will be far worse than a typical storm of Ike's strength, the National Hurricane Center said.
And because coastal waters in Texas and Louisiana are so shallow, storm surge is usually larger there than in other regions, according to storm experts. A 1900 hurricane following a similar track to Ike inundated Galveston Island, killing at least 8,000 people — America's deadliest storm.

"It's a good recipe for surge," said Benton McGee, supervisory hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's storm surge center in Ruston, La. "We're already seeing water being piled up in the Gulf. On top of that you're going to have water forced into the bays along the coast."

The National Hurricane Center is forecasting a 20-foot surge — a rapid rising of water inundating areas and moving inland — for a large swath of Texas and the Louisiana coasts. Above that, the center predicts "large and dangerous battering waves." Waves could be 50 feet tall, said hurricane center spokesman and meteorologist Dennis Feltgen.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Make that one hour of nobody but me!

der Brucer