[78-L] MAMMY! FINALLY here! (well Almost!)

[Steve Ramm]

FYI from another newsgroup.

 

The awaited Al Jolson musical MAMMY can now be preordered at the Warner 
Archive site, to be available April 6:
http://www.wbshop.com/Mammy/1000102666,default,pd.html?cgid=ARCHIVEPRE

>From Lou Lumenick's New York Post blog:
Michael Curtiz' 1930 Al Jolson musical "Mammy'' -- with restored two-strip 
Technicolor numbers that are said to comprise about 20 percent of the 
84-minute running time -- will debut as part of the Warner Archive 
Collection on April 6. The film's restoration was undertaken in 2003 by UCLA 
from a nitrate print found two years earlier at the Netherlands Film 
Institute in Amsterdam. That print had Dutch title cards, which UCLA 
replaced with black-and-white footage tinted in sepia. For the DVD release, 
the sepia footage has been computer-colored to match the original 
Technicolor. And it's been combined with a new digital restored master from 
the original black-and-white negative in the Warner Bros. vaults. This 
murder mystery set at a minstrel show is the seventh of Jolson 's often 
politically-incorrect musicals available from the Warner Archive Collection.
 		 	   		  
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