It's a Wonderful life questions

[graham]

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Hi,

I see that the film 'It's a Wonderful life' was released at least three
times on LaserDisc:
45th Aniversary - Republic Pictures
50th Aniversary - Republic Pictures
Special Edition - Criterion

Oddly eoungh the Criterion version is listed as Colour on the lddb (but
I guess that must be a mistake)

My question is, are these any better in picture and sound quality than
the DVD release which is really terrible, with sound dropouts and really
bad film damage.

I saw it on television a year or so ago and it looked much better than
the DVD.

Does anyone know anything about the LaserDisc versions?

Cheers!

--
Graham

 

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I have the Criterion boxed set and it is nice but I have heard that the
aniversery discs are better transfers. I also have the silver screen DVD.
It´s been a long time since I watched the DVD but I can´t remember any
dropouts.

The Criterion set is in B&W but there are extras in colour. It also has a
commentary track that is unavailable on the other versions.
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> Hi,
>
> I see that the film 'It's a Wonderful life' was released at least three
> times on LaserDisc:
> 45th Aniversary - Republic Pictures
> 50th Aniversary - Republic Pictures
> Special Edition - Criterion
>
> Oddly eoungh the Criterion version is listed as Colour on the lddb (but
> I guess that must be a mistake)
>
> My question is, are these any better in picture and sound quality than
> the DVD release which is really terrible, with sound dropouts and really
> bad film damage.
>
> I saw it on television a year or so ago and it looked much better than
> the DVD.
>
> Does anyone know anything about the LaserDisc versions?
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Graham
>
>