Posted on 07/28/2025 11:47:46 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I came upon The Wizard of Oz while casually flipping through the channels.
It was broadcast using The Soap Opera Effect.
I was stunned. It looked like it was being broadcast Live.
I ran across this again on PLUTO TV.
They have Gunsmoke & Andy Griffith episodes which look like they are NEW. Even though I’ve seen every episode of these shows, you end up wanting to watch them again.
Our trip is scheduled for September 20.
The technology of the time is part of the experience. They should leave the movie alone.
That sounds pretty neat! I didn’t even know that existed.
While expensive, I think it would be similar to paying for nice seats at a Broadway show.
We were there last year and a tour of the dome was $75
My cousins and I would watch the movie at my aunt and uncles house. Black and white TV. When Dorothy was imprisoned in the castle, my sister and girl cousins would start crying.
Years later, my sister moved to Kansas.
Boy did I have fun with that.
I found a button with Dorothy on it saying:
“Auntie Em. Hate you, hate Kansas, took the dog.”
In 4 years it will fall into the public domain.
That sounds fascinating.
The audience at the showings are going to be something else: parents with kids entranced by the spectacle — and weirdo gays imagining that they are Dorothy and reciting her lines.
The oldest shows look a lot better than the “newer” older shows because they were filmed, not taped. Therefore, they can go back to the original source for a print and they are going to be HD. Shows that were taped cannot do that when remastered - although they can still look much better if they would go back and use the master tapes for new prints. However, as AI editing advances, that may change. There are still old shows airing in re-runs that look terrible because they are still using the original, lower-quality syndicated prints that were for analog broadcasts but those imperfections weren’t nearly as visible back then.
This movie became a huge hit not from its original theatrical release, but from when it started being broadcast on television - and most viewers at that time would not have even seen or known about the sepia to color changing effects of Kansas v. Oz.
It was an event, when they showed it once a year.
I was astonished. I had no idea it existed either.
I wlll say, I have a copy of the original “Top Gun” movie, and I saw a 3D copy of it and bought it, so...technology exists somewhere to convert flat movies, but it must be expensive.
It isn’t the old type with blue and green lens in the glasses. This technology (which was wholly dropped somewhere after 2017 I think) is in the television, not in the Blue Ray player, and the television syncs via bluetooth with the glasses at a refresh rate of 60 Hz, so that is how fast the polarity switches (I think 90 degrees) in the lens, so you are seeing polarity on in one image with zero degrees polarity visible with the other at either 90-180 degrees on the other, and 1/60th of a second later, I think it switches.
Online, people say it makes their eyes hurt, but I never felt any discomfort or strain from it at all. I think I have several dozen 3D movies (Including “The Martian” which is great, and “Gravity” which, although not being a great movie because it has the douchebag George Clooney in it, is pretty damn gripping to watch in 3D.
I am so disappointed the technology was canned.
Definitely was! You didn’t want to miss it! Not even a second!
How does 3-D television work? Do you need to wear 3-D glasses.
This whole thread has gotten me excited that I think I’ll put my DVD of it on the tube tonight.
"...To pull it off, the artists worked with the original film elements, scanning them and removing dirt and scratches. Next came the 3D conversion, which was performed by VFX company Prime Focus World. Warner Bros.' digital colorist Janet Wilson then did the color correction in 3D.
Warner Bros. and IMAX—along with members of the conversion team, including Ned Price, VP of Mastering, Warner Bros. Technical Operations, and stereographer Justin Jones—recently screened three scenes for members of the press, who say that the restoration reveals things about Oz that you probably couldn't see when watching the movie on TV. "You get a wonderful sense of depth with so much layering (especially with the multi-plane castle effect)," writes Bill Desowitz at Indiewire. "The detail is stunning (from the Scarecrow's burlap texture to the Cowardly Lion's fur; from the extra rivet on the Tin Man's face to Dorothy's freckles)." Desowitz also notes that it's not just color that defines Dorothy's journey from Kansas to Oz; Prime Focus kept the 3D in Kansas somewhat shallow, while pumping up the depth for Oz. And they also played around with the 3D, distorting the Witch's nose and exaggerating her hat and fingers to make her scarier, according to Desowitz..."
Pretty cool.
Are they going to show the forlorn, love rejected midget hang himself in the background in 3D?
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