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Author Topic: HD Version of Blazing Saddles in Stereo???? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-05-2007 12:53 PM                     Rented Blazing Saddles in HD-DVD last night and low and behold the mix appears to have been done in Stereo. At any rate for an older film it sounds pretty darn good... also looks good... more likely better than you will ever see it on any existing film print. Were there any mag releases of BS at all in past years or has the track been re-done by Chase? If Chase did this its pretty respectable!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-05-2007 01:25 PM                     I'm pretty sure the original release was mono. I have the 30th anniversary DVD, with features both a mono track and a remixed 5.1 track. I don't know if Chace worked on it. It sounds decent (the music is the best produced part of it), but the mix is definitely more oriented to the front speakers.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-05-2007 03:44 PM                     quote: Mark also looks good... more likely better than you will ever see it on any existing film print. Have you seen every release of the film? Including any IB techs, and LPP reissues?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-05-2007 03:51 PM                        I thought all the chains rented only BluRay.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-05-2007 04:02 PM                     I've seen a couple of prints and they looked DAMN good. One was an original Fuji and another was a more recent striking in pristine condition. No form of video (even the coveted "HD-DVD") could've come close to these prints.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-05-2007 08:57 PM                     I've seen so many prints of it over the years I lost count. The best as for color were the IB's but the wear on them was pretty bad. The Eastmans looked poor and the Fuji's just passable.. the reds in all Fuji's lean slightly towards pink, its a characteristic of all the Fuji stocks except their reversal films. I thought the HD-DVD looked pretty darn good and even some of the characteristic IB colors come though pretty well that don't in the Eastmans and Fuji's. The track was excellent for a film this old. Mark  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-06-2007 07:00 AM                     quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Were there any mag releases of BS The film was a mono optical only release. Warner has remixed the film for it's 30th. Anniversary DVD in 2003. Fox does this all the time on many of their earlier films they release to DVD market. They offer the original mono mix and a remixed for stereo version.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 08-06-2007 07:27 AM                        I have an older Dolby Digital dvd of this film. It is DD 1.0. Really great mono. So I would assume that no release was other than mono. BTW: the transfer is so good that the audio on the main title "improves" as time progresses. You can actually hear the warpage of the full coat on the beginning. Better about 30 seconds in. Louis  |  IP: Logged

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