I positevly make my mind to buy this one. The parts I saw (thanks Elly) in widescreen is so great and different that even if it is no special features it worth buying and with features it is absoluly no question of it.
Posts from Senta in thread „The Big Trail (1930)“
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Hi Elly,
Thank you for the great clip from Big Trail.
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Hi,
this painting "Emigrants Crossing the Plains" by Bierstadt remains the Big Trail.
Regards,
Senta
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[ATTACH]1134] I spent almost half an hour trying to add this attachments - don't know why.
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[ATTACH]1132]Hi,
at last I scan the cover of my vhs. It is'n said on it that documentary is included, but it is there.
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Hi, I shall scan later today. The number on the spine is 0869130 MONO. Yes, 20th Century Fox Home Entertaiment. Renewed on 1957.
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Hi,
Where I can find catalog number on the box. I shall try to scan picture on the cover.
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Hi all,
I watched The Big Trail and was really surprised how good it is as a movie. I like Walshs movies and this one too - a real epic. And it is really hard to imagine that it was filmed in 1930.
And Duke was really good for his part.
I like the slow pace of the movie and beautiful locations.
On my VHs there is also very fine documentary about making The Big Trail.
Regards,
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Hi all,
I watched The Big Trail and was really surprised how good it is as a movie. I like Walshs movies and this one too - a real epic. And it is really hard to imagine that it was filmed in 1930.
And Duke was really good for his part.
I like the slow pace of the movie and beautiful locations.
On my VHs there is also very fine documentary about making The Big Trail.
Regards,
Senta -
i got it today at last, I got it. On VHS 110 min, with Making of documentary at the beginning
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Originally posted by RoughRider@Oct 31 2006, 07:41 PM
A PAL VHS won't play at all in a standard NTSC player, so the video formats are entirely different. A PAL VHS should play back at 25fps, though. That is, the running time will be shorter. But then again, I thought this of DVD too. But being digital, a film can be encoded in such a way that it doesn't matter what television standard is used: the DVD player's hardware reads the digital data and converts it to whatever display is being used.As mentioned, some DVDs don't have PAL speed-up. Technically I don't fully understand this fact. My assumption is that they are encoded in a different way, perhaps progressively where each frame in a film is a single digital frame and not interlaced (two fields to create one frame). The player's hardware takes this data and then outputs it to whatever standard is being used (PAL or NTSC). So for some DVDs (at least the way I see it), the only thing that makes them PAL is the physical resolution.
But perhaps some VHSes don't have PAL speed-up either. I imagine there are different ways a film can get telecined to VHS. I also have the UK VHS of Reunion in France on order. The BBFC lists the UK video as 99m:50s, which in NTSC would be 103m:59s (the length of the actual uncut film). The offical American VHS and TCM print runs 98m:46s.
It should be noted that the early NTSC VHS of The Big Trail has the same catalogue number as the UK VHS (#1362), but it's listed over here as 110 minutes instead of 116. (Fox lists the DVD on their online store as 110 minutes, too, but it's actually 108.) If they have the same Fox catalogue number, they should be exactly the same film.
In any case, I'll get to the bottom of this mystery once the UK VHS is in my hands and converted to an NTSC VHS, then to DVD-R (the same with Reunion in France). For The Big Trail I'll do sync tests with the official DVD release. Such tests can be confirmed using the WinDVD player which has a feature called 'PAL TruSpeed'. Mind you, if the UK version is either 8 minutes longer (no PAL speed-up) or 13-14 minutes longer (compensating for PAL speed-up), the difference will be obvious because of additional scenes not on the DVD.
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Hi Rough Rider,
I never thought that PAl and NTSC is the question of speed. Mine VHS player plays both, as well as DVD player.
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So it is better to buy this film on VHS PAL.
I\ve bought it once on DVD but it was lost by post, so I never seen it
Regards,
Senta
