Gleeps, it's Batman wrote:I have a stupid question. With them cleaning up the prints, will they be clearing up the sound? It's not the dialogue I'm talking about. I remember in the 70s being surprised with how much clearer California Nights sounded on the record than on the show. Last year I saw a video on youtube where someone put the record over the song scene from That Darn Catwoman, and padded out the parts of the song that were missing from the episode with other scenes from the episode. (Found it here. And along those lines, someone did the same with Maybe Now, though padding it with Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara didn't work quite as well. Heh, California Nights was even used as a theme for a Batman/Catwoman video. )
Thinking of this also made me wonder if the theme song will come through clearer, and will we clearly hear a dah-dah-dah-dah (as Batguitarist said the words are printed on the sheet music) rather than the na-na-na-na that everyone seems to hear?
Well you all know my thoughts on the music. The bluray of the movie has an isolated music option so I was hoping the series would too. If they took the time to clean up the music tracks, there may be hope of a CD release in the future.
Gleeps, it's Batman wrote:I have a stupid question. With them cleaning up the prints, will they be clearing up the sound? It's not the dialogue I'm talking about. I remember in the 70s being surprised with how much clearer California Nights sounded on the record than on the show. Last year I saw a video on youtube where someone put the record over the song scene from That Darn Catwoman, and padded out the parts of the song that were missing from the episode with other scenes from the episode. (Found it here. And along those lines, someone did the same with Maybe Now, though padding it with Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara didn't work quite as well. Heh, California Nights was even used as a theme for a Batman/Catwoman video. )
Thinking of this also made me wonder if the theme song will come through clearer, and will we clearly hear a dah-dah-dah-dah (as Batguitarist said the words are printed on the sheet music) rather than the na-na-na-na that everyone seems to hear?
I promised myself I wasn't going to bring this up again....I've seen the you-tube "Maybe now" scene and it's not the entire song. This makes me wonder if there maybe more to the scene(more deleted stuff) than what you-tube gave us.
The episodes never contained the entire songs of either California Nights or Maybe Now. That would have made them go on entirely too long. I've seen other tv shows (first run) that used pared down versions of songs. It's not an uncommon thing in television.
I remember as a kid being a little annoyed when they broke into the song with the police car winding down the streets of the backlot, as I didn't yet have the record and my audio tape of the show was the only version I had. I see they moved that scene in the current edits since the song was cut out.
Question for those in the know: will the Blu Ray set have English Subtitles (SDH)? Warner has not yet released full specs on the set and the Amazon listing makes no mention of including English subtitles.
Nick Charles wrote:Question for those in the know: will the Blu Ray set have English Subtitles (SDH)? Warner has not yet released full specs on the set and the Amazon listing makes no mention of including English subtitles.
Amazon.com has listed now the specs you requested and here is what it says:
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Box set, Full Screen, Limited Edition
Subtitles: French, Latin Spanish
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 13
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: November 11, 2014
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Gleeps, it's Batman wrote:The episodes never contained the entire songs of either California Nights or Maybe Now. That would have made them go on entirely too long. I've seen other tv shows (first run) that used pared down versions of songs. It's not an uncommon thing in television.
I remember as a kid being a little annoyed when they broke into the song with the police car winding down the streets of the backlot, as I didn't yet have the record and my audio tape of the show was the only version I had. I see they moved that scene in the current edits since the song was cut out.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying, of course the "Maybe now" song was shortened. What I was getting at is that in the first half, Gore was lip sinking to a record(now we were suppose to believe that she was actually singing). If we are to believe that this is one of those old 45's were listening to it stands to reason we would hear the crackling of a record playing...it makes the scene seem authentic. If the music is re-worked here, we lose something in the translation. The question I was asking in my previous post was that I wonder if there is more to the scene prior to when we hear "Gore" start singing, like there might be a shot where we see LG put the record on and grab the Robin photo. The reason I mention this is that if the intention here is that she is singing(Lip sinking) Maybe now...it makes no sense to re-master the music in this case.
Often when studios release their beloved movie classics to home video presentations by way of restoration or re-mastering they frequently consult the original cinematographers for their input as to the original "look" and authenticity of the films' presentations. I was wondering if maybe any of the cinematographers for the Batman TV show were asked to participate in the production of its video release. As for Batman's cinematographers (according to the IMDB), of which there were 6 total, I believe only one is still alive (at least I couldn't find a date of death), that being Ralph Woolsey at around 100 years of age.
Howard Schwartz ... (58 episodes, 1966-1967)
Meredith M. Nicholson ... (30 episodes, 1966-1967)
Charles Straumer ... (13 episodes, 1967-1968)
Ralph Woolsey ... (10 episodes, 1966)
Jack A. Marta ... (7 episodes, 1966)
Sam Leavitt ... (2 episodes, 1966)
Just curious as to whom had the final say on the correct authentic look of the original filmed- episodes broadcast for proper video release presentations.
The Joker wrote:I was wondering if maybe any of the cinematographers for the Batman TV show were asked to participate in the production of its video release.
I lean on the side of seriously doubting that. For example, Universal's restoration of their horror classics happened without the participation of cinematographers who passed away long ago. Further, anyone contacted for consulting positions would need to be compensated, and again, I doubt WB thought it was necessary to consult anyone other than whatever restoration company (in house or not) assigned to the project.
Heh, California Nights was even used as a theme for a Batman/Catwoman video.
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