We’ve really felt burned when movie changed hands, with various Paramount Hitchcocks going to Universal, switching logos, and enduring graphic mutilation. We’re told that logos allowed companies to assert their identity but also gave projectionists a chance to focus and adust audio - if the MGM lion doesn’t roar, check the amplifier switch, Mitch. If a show has three major producing entities, we have to sit through 30 seconds of self-congratulatory individual graphic treatments - and then see the same credits repeated in text, one after another, in the film’s main titles proper. We cultural ingrates at CineSavant like to gripe about modern logos for film companies - for the last 30 years or so we’ve been bombarded with ‘special animation’ items that are either forgettable, or annoying. this special project motivated the formation of an entire new company. We note that Ignite’s box spine reads ’01.’ I think it’s a sign that hard media is here to stay for the time being. If he steps aside, will we see Bela Lugosi wrestling with an octopus? We basically approve of the painting, although we wonder what the Martian Mutant is doing carrying a district nurse through a swamp. The release now has a street date - September 26th ! It ties in with three recently released Warner Archive discs that also commemmorate the Centennial: Ziegfeld Girl, For Me and My Gal, and The Clock.Īnd the new label Ignite Films just released an image of the final artwork for its upcoming release of Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD editions of the remastered Invaders from Mars. Old friend Dick Dinman knows that a certain anniversary can’t be allowed to slip by unremarked: his latest DVD Classics Corner on the Air podcast is a big discussion piece with author/raconteur John Fricke intended toĬelebrate Judy Garland’s 100th Birthday!.