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Paul Barker
Master Film Handler

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From: Lancashire, England
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posted October 31, 2015 05:32 PM

not available in the UK i purchased the digibook release put out by Warner Bros in america. i was never too keen on the quality. i have now however bought from Amazon italy a 2 disc(1 blu ray 1 dvd)region B release by another company.the feature(english sound) on the blu ray in my opinion is much better than warners release. the dvd has the complete 1925 THE LOST WORLD. excellent quality with english title cards. also there is an interview with Fay Wray in her later years.which is in english. cost with postage to uk £12 HIGHLY RECCOMENDED.

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Mark Todd
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posted November 01, 2015 03:42 PM

Hi Paul is the good version not to grainey etc ?

With B+W on Blu Ray I often find they pull all sorts of noise and gumph up.

All Quiet on the Western front 1931 is dreadful for instance.

Be a nice one to have a good copy of.

Best Mark.

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Paul Barker
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posted November 01, 2015 04:01 PM

hi Mark. well the american release i had was very dark and very grainy. this italian release still has grain. more in some scenes than in others.like the american release.i think it was always a grainy film. but overall i think its better. and not as dark a picture. but if you dont like grain in films. give it a miss.

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Mark Todd
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posted November 01, 2015 05:49 PM

Hi Paul, I`ve got the DVD so thank you, I`ll stick with that.

Probably fairly close as its a good dvd.

I dare say theres a lot of older stuff is probably as good on DVD.

Best Mark.

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Rob Young.
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posted November 03, 2015 04:34 AM

The Warners also has a lot of missing frames here and there with slight jumps in the action.

Quite distracting unfortunately.

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Osi Osgood
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posted November 03, 2015 12:41 PM

From the review I read on "bluray.com", Kong has a good deal of inherent grain, due to the special effects used at the time and you can only get so much of the grain out of it without it looking, well, kind of "plastic" image wise.

I've seen it and I'm surprised to see just how good an ancient film like that can actually look!

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