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

[Michael Biel]

Steve Ramm wrote:
> 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
>   
I'm a little disappointed to see that it is not going into regular 
release, but glad it is coming. Perhaps they thought with a title like 
that it would be too sensitive to put on full public sale, but if they 
publicize it properly amongst us collectors it might be a great vehicle 
to get everybody to know about their archive project. 

I wonder if it can be maneuvered  to be part of the 5 for $55 sale.  
There are a bunch of new releases I already need to order before the 
sale disappears.  Leah's birthday is next month and perhaps they will 
offer her a discount on everything like we got for the month of Steve's 
birthday.  I'll make sure she did indeed register her birthday.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> >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.