The Extras - Warner Archive October Part 1 Announcement: 6 Classic Films PLUS a TV Series

Episode Date: September 18, 2026

Send us Fan MailIn Part 1, George Feltenstein announces 6 classic films and one TV series releasing in October from the Warner Archive. We discuss why these upgrades matter, from new 4K scans and rebuilt Technicolor to commentaries, radio programs, shorts, and cartoons that restore the full “movie night” context. George also explains how boutique partners help bring later-era catalog titles to market while the Warner Archive keeps pushing the classics forward with the best masters we can make. Pre-order links are not yet available. Moviezyng Affiliate LinkThe Extras Facebook pageThe Extras TV YouTube ChannelThe Extras Twitter Warner Archive & Warner Bros Catalog GroupJoin our new public Facebook Group for Warner Archive Animation Fans and get the latest update on all the releases.As an Amazon and Moviezyng Affiliate, The Extras may receive a commission for purchases through our purchase links.  There is no additional cost to you, and every little bit helps us in the production of the podcast.  Thanks in advance.Otaku Media produces podcasts, behind-the-scenes extras, and media that connect creatives with their fans and businesses with their consumers.  Contact us today to see how we can work together to achieve your goals.  [e-mail]

Hi, I'm film historian and author John Fricky. I've written books about Judy Garland and The Wizard of Oz movie, and you're listening to The Extras. Hello and welcome to The Extras. I'm Tim Larger host and joining me is George Feltonstein to announce some October Blu-ray releases from the Warner Archive. Good morning, George. Good morning, Timothy. How are you?

Good. And we have another month just packed with classic films and TV series and, uh, eventually we'll get to a 4K as well. So there's a lot going on in October. So let's dive in. And I'm very interested in this first one, George, because I don't know anything about it. And this is Mr. Skeffington from 1944,

if I'm pronouncing that correct. What can you tell us about this film? This is a great Betty Davis film. This is representative of her... leading vehicles that were remastered for DVD 20 years ago, in high definition, but for DVD purposes. So that old master's been clinking around television and streaming, and it's not terrible, but it wouldn't meet our standards.

So it's one of the times where, now, as I've spoken about before, it was very hard for me to get approval to create new HD masters on things we already had in HD, even though they weren't up to our standards to release on Blu-ray. That bottleneck broke, thankfully. So we're now seeing what I consider to be an A title, if you will, in Betty Davis's

amazing body of work at Warner Brothers. What makes this film really interesting is she plays a very, very narcissistic character. And she's very socially progressive, she's wealthy. She has lots of suitors. She's very beautiful. she's also got a pain in the neck brother that's kind of just a worthless individual. And he gets himself stuck in a bind. And in order to unstick the bind, she agrees to marry her brother's boss who got ripped off.

And her brother's boss is Mr. Skeffington. Certain people have said to me that I give away too much pleasure. plot information when we're talking about these movies. So I'm just going to leave it there, but amongst Betty Davis fans, there's a lot of people that really, really dig this movie. It's not in the category of things like Jezebel or the letter, things that we have already released, which are, you know, iconographic films. But it just slightly falls short of that in most people.

people's eyes. In my, my personal opinion, I really love this film. And I think it's really well directed. Vincent Sherman directed it. And he lived to be 99, as we've discussed before. So we got him to record a commentary. He was sharp right until the end, almost made it to 100. So we have his commentary here. And this film was one of the first where I, early in my youthful career, in the land of video cassette, when this movie made its appearance on video cassette, in 1988, it had 20 minutes of the running time restored to it. And that 20 minutes has been there ever since, whether it's on TCM or the DVD or streaming or anything, the film, opened at 146 minutes.

That seemed a little long to Jack Warner, so they chopped 20 minutes out of it. So it was one of my earliest attempts of trying to educate those around me, hey, there's a longer version. We should try to find it. That's kind of been my MO for a very long time. But this was one of my earliest successes in having that done. What we've done here is we've gone back to the original negative.

For the bulk of the film, for the 20 minutes that were cut, we came from a nitrate fine grain, which is second generation. So the quality is absolutely sparkling. It's a 4K scan for both elements. And it's a first class restoration, and it's a first class presentation. And one of the things we did here, which we try to do a lot, is we found some beautiful, I believe it's Belgian artwork for the cover. The DVD cover for this movie was the original US One Sheet, which had Betty Davis looking like 1944 Betty Davis.

They didn't want to communicate that it was a period piece, and there was a very distinctive look to her character in this film. The Belgians weren't afraid to have her in costume with the hair and the whole thing. So we really wanted to have a wonderful cover for this. we found the artwork that I thought was just right. So it's a wonderful presentation of a wonderful film. She's terrific in it. Claude Raines is, as usual, magnificent. And I love the way they play against each other.

We have a featurette that was made for the DVD release, which we're carrying over here, which is lovely to be able to include. We also have a Lux Radio Thirteen. theater performance with Betty Davis and Claude Raines is not playing her leading man. Paul Henry, her co-star from Now Voyager and Deception, is playing her leading man. So it's wonderful to have the two of them together for that radio performance. And I think people will enjoy that.

I don't believe we had that on the DVD. Something else we didn't have on the DVD was the classic Warner Bros. Brothers cartoon, Duck Soup to Nuts. But when I did my research to see what cartoon in short played with this film, when it opened in L.A., duck soup to nuts was playing with Mr. Skevington when it opened in L.A. The short subject that was playing at that theater was not a Warner Short subject. So I didn't feel compelled to find something else. I think it's a very strong presentation and package.

and it's a very entertaining movie. When people talk about the best Betty Davis movies, they talk about All About Eve, Now Voyager, whatever happened to Baby Jane, Jezebel, the letter, the old maid, there are many, many of her films that just roll off the tongue. Skevington, I think 50% of the time will be part of that. But for those who haven't experienced it,

I just think it's terrific. and there's something very different about it. Also, the music is by Franz Waxman. It's not by Max Steiner. So, Franz Waxman was a little bit more progressive in his musicality. This film is not a comedy by any stretch of the imagination,

but there are some amusing things about it. There is a light air in certain parts of the film. There's also some very dark parts of the film. But Waxman's score. as a composer who was, I put Steiner and Waxman at an equal level of greatness, but they were very different. And I really liked the score he wrote for this film.

I'm very proud that we're bringing it to Blu-ray. And those upgrades of people asking for more of the more familiar Betty Davis titles, they're all in the Conga line. They're in production. they're amongst the 125 plus titles that, you know, and that list could change to 165 if my latest request gets blessed. So the more of the people support the Warner Archive activities,

the more we can expand the list. Well, I'm very excited because this is not a Betty Davis that I'm familiar with. So I'm looking forward to getting familiar with. I can't wait for you to see it. Yeah. I'm excited to talk to you about. But I do know that from. the online reaction already, those hardcore Betty Davis fans are very excited that this is coming

out. And you can just see that with the positive response there already. So very exciting there. Thumbs up. Yeah. Next we have a pre-code, which I'm always excited to hear about these pre-codes, because as we talk about before, just with how old these films are, the dramatic increase in terms of the quality of the look and the sound is so good on these pre-codes. But this is Jewish. robbery from 1932. What can you tell us about this one? This is one of my favorite pre-code movies. This is a part of Forbidden Hollywood, you know, the DVD we put out for Forbidden Hollywood.

And I would say that was probably about 12 to 14 years ago at this point. That was a new master made off a fourth generation fine grain. This is a new 4K scan off the nitrate camera negative, and the difference is revelatory in terms of the beauty of the photography, the presentation. This is a re-teaming of William Powell and K. Francis, and a couple years ago, we released one-way passage where you saw the chemistry between them. here the emphasis is on comedy, sophisticated comedy, and it is pre-code underline. Kay Francis plays a very wealthy lady in Vienna who's very bored with her stuffy old husband and is looking for adventure and looking for romance. And she's shopping for jewelry one day with her friend.

and all of a sudden, the jewelry shop is robbed by the most dashing, elegant, suave, and humorous jewel thief that just happens to be played by a guy named William Powell. So if William Powell is in the movie, I'm already hooked. William Powell and Kay Francis, I'm double-hooked. It's based on a play. I don't know really much about how much of the play had all of this humor or what the Warner Brothers brought to this. But one of the high point pre-code moments in this movie is when someone slips one of the, I believe he's like a bodyguard or a watchman or a security guard or something,

but they slip him a special cigarette, which of course is marijuana. And, you know, the way they refer to it, they're light, it's pre-code. They're light. They don't say, you know, here's a judge. joint, you know, I mean, but the fact that you would not see that in a movie two and a half years later. It is directed by William Dieterly, who is a director I'm very, very fond of, but it almost has a trouble in paradise, probably because of Kay Francis makes me think about this. It has a little bit of a Lubits feel to it.

Also, the fact that it takes place in Vienna. I really love this film. I think people are going to enjoy the film if they haven't seen it. If they've seen it before, they've never seen it look this gorgeous unless they were around in 1932. Right. There are people around who were around in 1932, but they were little children. So here's your chance to watch a wonderful 94-year-old movie looking spectacular. We've got an HD Warner Bros. Cartoon on the disc.

you're too careless with your kisses. We also have a Bosco cartoon Bosco store. And yes, we have the trailer. So it's a great package. Wonderful movie. If you've never seen Jewel robbery before, this is worth a blind buy. I really don't think anyone wouldn't enjoy this movie.

And given that is a Warner Brothers film from 1932, its pacing is just ratat-tat. It's wonderful. Yeah. So I'm very happy we're releasing it. Oh, I am too. I just big fan of Kate Francis, big fan of William Powell, big fan of these pre-codes. And I know those folks who love the Forbidden Hollywood are so glad to be able to replace each of those films with these Blu-rays with these great HD transfers. So that should be fantastic. Our next film, very popular, I think, in terms of when it was announced.

And this is Love Finds Andy Hardy from 19. What can you tell us about this one? Well, I'm assuming that all people listening to the extras are familiar with the Andy Hardy movies. One of the most successful series in the history of cinema in terms of popularity. There were 16 Andy Hardy movies made by MGM from, I think, 1937. And then the last one was 1946 with a return. in 1958, that didn't turn out so well. But for the most part, the success of the Andy Hardy series with Mickey Rooney's

Andy Hardy, Lewis Stone, his father, Fahilden, his mother, the lovely Anne Rutherford is his girlfriend, Polly Benedict. There's something very homespun about all of these. But this is the fourth in the series, and it's probably one of the more famous ones because not just Polly Benedict, Andy Hardy's girlfriend, is a love interest for him in this movie. But there's also visiting Betsy Booth, played by 15-year-old Judy Garland,

who's visiting with her grandmother and meets Andy Hardy in Carville, which is the hometown where Andy lives. So this is Judy and Mickey making him more significant. They'd worked together on screen before in Thurrow Breads Don't Cry the year before. but this film gives Judy an opportunity to sing three songs. Andy Hardy movies usually didn't have songs in them, but they worked it out for this.

And the other adorable young lady who catches Andy's fancy happens to be played by Lana Turner, who had made quite an impression in a movie called They Won't Forget at Warner Brothers the year before and ended up with an MGM contract. track. And so this is like an Andy Hardy movie that has a little extra ingredient to it. And for historical purposes, I think it's interesting. This had nothing to do with me because I was transitioning to Warner Home video when it happened. But the first Andy Hardy movie and really the only Andy Hardy movie

that made it to DVD before we started releasing all of them as DVDs, the Warner Archive in 2011, I think we started that. This was released on DVD before all the rest of the series. So accordingly, this is being released on Blu-ray. I would love it if we were structured in such a way where the company just said, here, here are all 16 Andy Hardy movies we mastered. Our company doesn't work that way, but this got approved and hopefully that will lead to more. But what we've done here is something that we also did on prior presentations. And that is we've added some attractive extras. We've added a 1940, I would say PSA. They didn't have that term back then, but public service film called Andy Hardy's Dilemma. And it isn't seen that

much and we added that as a little bit of a bonus. We also, of course, have the trailer and we also have an audio excerpt from the MGM Good News radio program. It was the first time the entire Hardy family cast was on the radio together. And it's almost like 25 minutes long. It's a Hardy family Thanksgiving. And it was specially written. and directed and created by all the same team that were working on the movies. This was obviously Thanksgiving season 1938, so a little after Love Finds came out into the theaters. But it's really quite enjoyable as a listen,

and we haven't had that, if my memory is serving me correctly. I don't believe we've made this available with any of the Hardy family releases prior. We also have some of Judy Garland's pre-recording sessions of her songs, including an audio outtake, a song that didn't end up in the film by Mir Bistuchin, which became a hit record for The Andrews Sisters. I can understand why they would have cut it out. It would have slowed down the picture a little bit. So it's a wonderful 4K scan of our best preservation elements because the

original negative, burnt in that fire, but the safety materials that were made have enabled us with a 4K scan to create a beautiful new master that's a quantum leap forward from what people saw previously. I hope that people support this so that, you know, we can get more of these Andy Hardee's. Well, next we have The Hucksters. What can you tell us about this 1947 film? It was very different for MGM to make a movie like this. This is about the advertising industry. Think Mad Men almost 20 years earlier, even though the chronology isn't quite that.

But it's about the advertising business, how it interacted with radio, getting sponsors to promote radio programs and to sell their product. and it was a cynical look at big business. And of course, this was tempered by the times, but I like the fact that it has an edge to it and that someone's looking at some of the underhanded business deals

that go on to get certain things done. And most importantly, this is the first Clark Gable movie after the war, after he returned home from the war. It's very much a post-war movie, and Gable sizzles in the movie. He really recaptures his screen charisma and energy that people hadn't seen for a long time. His romantic interest in the movie is Deborah Carr, who was, I believe, making her American film debut in this movie, although people had seen her in British films. But they had a very nice chemistry.

I like the way their characters are written. MGM borrowed Sidney Green Street from Warner Brothers to play a major supporting player in the film. And then there's a lovely young beauty who had been around MGM for a while and was starting to really make impact by the name of Ava Gardner. And there are some sparks between Ava Gardner and Clark Gable in this movie as well. But when you think of how this movie looks at commerce and how people do underhanded things in business, we had not not seen that before in other movies.

We just talked about Sky's Graper Souls and the pre-code. But this has that kind of edge where it was, okay, let's cut the garbage. Let's really look at this situation the way it is and how people sometimes do dastardly things in order to promote their own careers or their business. I just love Gable in this movie. I like the way everybody really takes it on in the film. There are some people that look at it now with the movie being, oh, dear God, nearly 80 years old,

they would want it to have more of the kind of lacerating impact that a series like Mad Men had or, you know, films like network that are able to tear apart known ways of dealing with media. But this is a very embryonic, early attempt to try to expose some things. So I think people will really enjoy this. It's another time where we've gone back and made huge improvements with a 4K scan off our preservation elements for a new HD master. People are going to enjoy it. It's quite a picture.

I found the artwork used for the cover kind of interesting. Gable's new star is Deborah Carr. Rhymes with Star. Exactly. That's one of the very famous, it's a famous ad campaign, which is I, I wrote. since it's about the advertising industry. But when Clark Gable first returned from World War II, the first film he made was a film called Adventure with Greer Garson.

And the tagline for that movie was Gables back and Garsons got him. Because Greg Garsen came into her own as an MGM movie star when Clark Gable was fighting the war overseas. and that film is not particularly successful. But this film was successful, and I think holds up really, really well. I think people are going to enjoy it a lot. And I do like that artwork. That's why we selected it to use it.

Yeah, it's amusing. And then you have quite a nice amount of extras on here as well. We've got an MGM short called Give Us the Earth, and a very famous Tom and Jerry cartoon, Saltwater, Tabby. And something really cool that I added here, which I don't believe was on the DVD, in my travels going through all the MGM pre-recordings from my days in producing soundtrack CDs, I went through the Hucksters musical recordings, you know, underscore and whatnot. But I found, since it's all about selling beauty soap, that's the primary product that is dealt with in the advertising plot of the movie. I found some radio jingles that Kay Thompson, who was this brilliant vocal arranger, who later went on to be a nightclub star with the Williams Brothers,

and also was in the movie Funny Face, which is the MGM musical Made It Paramount. Kate Thompson's radio jingles for Beauty Soap were amongst the recordings for the Hucksters, and I said, oh, I need to take these and put them on the disc. So people will be able to hear them. And they're very short, but it's just a nice little additive. Well, next we're going to jump a few decades to 1965, and the film is The Hill. What can you tell us about this one? This has been so highly requested.

This is a great film directed by one of my favorite directors, Sidney LaMette. It stars one of my favorite film stars, and I think I'm not alone in having those feelings about Sean Connery. This was Sean Connery breaking out of the James Bond mode. He was so famous for being James Bond. He wanted to do other work so that people didn't pigeonhole him as just James Bond. And this film is about as far away from a James Bond movie as you can get. It takes place in North Africa during World War II, and British soldiers are

basically in horrific conditions. It takes place inside a military prison. And the cast is outstanding. The writing is outstanding. You have Sir Michael Redgrave, Harry Andrews, who's terrific in the movie Ian Bannon, and the great Assy Davis. The writing is taught.

It feels modern. And it was, of course, specifically, chosen to be a black and white film because in 1965, it was almost unheard of for a major studio to make a film in black and white. The industry had moved to color unless there was a reason a particular film needed the particular sensibility, visual sensibility of what black and photography could bring. And that's exactly what you have here. It's quite disturbing.

It's violent. And it is also written with great intelligence, directed with enormous tension. It's a little over two hours in length, but the time flies by because the film is so incredibly well written and well performed. It's one of those films that when you're done with it, you just feel so grateful to not be in the middle of a North African prison in the stifling heat. And it makes you feel refreshed that you're not subjected to what those characters are being subjected to. But Connery's performance was Oscar-worthy. He didn't get nominated, but he should have been.

I think Hollywood didn't pay as much attention to this film because, Even though it was produced by MGM, it was produced through the infrastructure of MGM's British Studio. And so it wasn't a Hollywood movie. And Lomette was never embraced by the Hollywood community because he basically worked out of New York. So I don't think the Academy ever gave him the appreciation he deserved. But this is a terrific movie.

we've gone back to the camera negative 4K scan new master is gorgeous there's also a featureette called the sun the sand the hill about the making of the movie so they shot the filming of the filming which is rare that they did that but they did that for this it isn't as long as i wish it could have been but it's really impactful in giving you a sense of what they were trying to do and we have gone back to the original negative of this featurette and remastered it in high definition, which we don't often get the chance to do. So the featurette is on here. We also have a brand new commentary being recorded by film historians, and I think people are going to really love the commentary because the people who are giving the commentary, Lee Pfeiffer, someone that I worked with

years ago on some James Bond laser disc projects when I was at MGM. Lee and Paul Scrabo and Tony Latino are the three people on the commentary. And, you know, when we get communication from fans, a lot of people are saying, you know, why don't you do any new extras? I often say, you know, we don't have the budget. And that's true. We put the money in the master. this film is so important that we felt compelled to give it a commentary.

It really deserves it. It needs the perspective for people who follow Connery's career, for people who follow Lumet's career, and to understand what the film business was in the 60s and how it was changing. So I'm very excited to be able to present the film with a brand new commentary. Jerry. And just to keep all things equal, we have a Chuck Jones created 1965, Tom and Jerry cartoon, and the theatrical trailer. So it's a beautiful presentation of a very important film that people love. And we've had more requests for this movie than you can imagine. And I'm glad we can finally come through with it. I was pleasantly surprised to see the terrific reaction to your announcement of this film. and I think a lot of people are cheering that more of these 60s and 70s films,

you're able to bring more of them out as you have expanded the whole slate, actually. Well, this is actually a great opportunity for me to dig into that a little bit because there is a consistent drumbeat about why aren't we seeing more films from the 70s and 80s and 90s? And I really want to address that we will. continue to have them, but I also oversee when we license to partners. And the work that we've been doing with our partners, whether it is Arrow Films, Criterion Collection, Shoud Factory, Vinegar Syndrome, these companies are focusing on those later periods. Criterion focuses on

the same width and breath of the entire history of cinema. But when you look at films like what Arrow's doing with Soylent Green and Westworld and the things that they have coming up, I wanted those films to be able to be given enormous amounts of supplementary material to contextualize their release. And the fan base is so strong. We're really not in a position. to do that.

And we also want to focus on the more classic period, but not exclusively. And The Hill is an example of, you know, it's a newer film. It's only 61 years old. Yeah. Crazy. But you're getting into a more contemporary sensibility.

But a lot of the later films that need the upgrade, that need the context, that's being complimentary to what our archive is doing. We are a boutique label. We just happen to be part of a huge movie studio. But in working with these other partners who are so committed to excellence, I think we're serving the consumer needs well. We need to do a better job of that because more things need to be made available.

So expanding our partnerships, basically doubling the Warner Archive release schedule, and having more partners that also are looking at finding just the right balance of what we can bring out. Plus, there are things coming out from the mothership, from the catalog as well, from my colleagues and friends here at the company, the net result being more content, more films. more television programs, more animated programs from our library to be available as physical media. That's the goal. And we're committed to that. So I'm glad you brought that up. I do have films in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 80s, the 80s, the 80s, the aughts in the pipeline. But that isn't our primary focus. Just like I have, you know, a sprinkle of 4Ks, but that's not a primary focus either due to cost. But I'm very grateful for what we have been able to do and what's in the pipeline. And I think people are going to be very, very happy. You just need to be patient,

which is not easy to do. Right. Well, next we have a TV show. And I've been pleasantly surprised with how you've been able to sprinkle these in now. And this is from 2006. So that's fairly recent and that's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. What can you tell us about this? Well, this is Aaron Sorkin, writer par excellence. Aaron Sorkin and Tommy Shlami, Thomas Shulami, who directed much of the West Wing and other things as well. They joined their talents to create a series that was a drama slash, comedy about the production of a Saturday night live type of sketch comedy show, but it was a very different take, and it stars Matthew Perry two years after the end of Friends. Everyone thought

this series was going to be an explosive phenomenon giving its pedigree. It only lasted one season. I think that was due to a combination of factors. I believe that 30 Rock with Tina Faye came out around the same time, but it just got really confusing at the time, the scheduling, the marketing. The reviews were overall very, very good, and it was very expensive to make, and NBC had it in a time slot where it just couldn't get. audience. There were very, very high hopes for it. And the fact that it only lasted a season, I mean, we announced that it was coming yesterday and we've gotten so much social media response, oh my God, I thought this would never happen. The show isn't streaming anywhere.

So this gives people a chance to see it. And it takes on a melancholy view because of Matthew Perry's tragic life, basically, and his ultimate death at such an early age. And the tragedy of that casts a pall over things. But he was really good in the show. Everybody in the show was really, really good. Bradley Whitford, Stephen Weber, who I knew in college. It's just Amanda Pete is in the show. I think it's just needs. that opportunity for people who never got to see it, and that's a lot of people, because it hasn't been around. This is an opportunity to own it and look really terrific and sound really terrific.

There was a DVD with Lossie Audio. This has DTSMA lossless audio, 5.1 surround. There's a commentary on the pilot with Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Shlomi. And then there's also a behind the scenes kind of piece. So it's a good package and it fulfills the Warner Archive mantra of taking what is on our vault shelf and bringing it to the home shelf. And this time with outstanding quality. So there's a lot to unpack here because the writing is so good. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. The acting, the writing, this, when it came out, we all working there at Warner Brothers. We all thought this was a multiple year show because it was so good. And just the whole team, the creative team, the writers, the actors, everybody was so strong. So so many fans out there want this. And it's great to see them coming out in support of this release. Well, I hope we're able to give it the light it deserves to be shined on. You know, that's very exciting.

Yeah, yeah. Well, we're going to end here today on this podcast, George, with one more film from 1949, and it's That Forsyth Woman. What can you tell us about this film? Well, this is an adaptation of a best-selling book, not the whole book, but it was based on the first part of the book, the Forsyte saga. Not to be confused with the Forsyth, which people often make that mistake because of John Forsyth, I guess. but the foresight saga. It's a technicolor,

dramatic romance. Arrow Flynn was borrowed from Warner Brothers to come to MGM to make the film as the leading man. Greer Garson is that Forsyte Woman. And her perennial screen co-star, Walter Pigeon, is there in the cast, along with Robert Young,

almost 18, 19 years after he started being an MGM contract. player. He gives a great performance. It's a beautiful Technicolor production that is filled with fine performances and good writing, and it was a very prestigious film at the time that it was made. You know, Gergesen photographed in Technicolor. She had that gorgeous red hair. It's just a beautiful looking film, very, very well-written, well-performed to see Flynn and Garson together. you know, Flynn's out of his Warner element. He's giving a very kind of different performance here.

Really shows off what a good actor he was. He didn't have to be in a Western or swashbuckling. You know, this is a very austere drama. I'm delighted we have, as we do, with nitrate technicolor, we've gone back to the original technical color negatives and realign them with our proprietary technology. It just looks almost like 3D. It's fantastic.

So I'm very happy about that. Because this was released in 1949, which was the 25th anniversary of Metro Golden Mayor, we've included the MGM 25th anniversary featureette called Some of the Best, which is a look back at MGM's 25-year history as of 1949, and has clips of films that were. going to be coming out from the future from the studio. There's also a little squib of the MGM 25th anniversary luncheon where basically almost

everybody who was under contract was on a big soundstage having a lunch with all the executives and salespeople from all over the world and a very well-celebrated moment, briefly excerpted in the first that's entertainment film. The featureette kind of dwells. on MGM's history as well as what they saw as its future. We've got a Tom and Jerry cartoon on there in the trailer. It should be a great deal of fun to add to one's collection. Well, there are more October releases,

but we're going to wrap this discussion up today. When we talk in our next podcast for the October releases, there will be an exciting 4K that we will talk about, and a 3D, which is, something that I know people will want to hear more about. So that's going to be an exciting one coming up soon. When pre-order links are available, they will be in the show notes. So you can look for them there.

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