Day of the Triffids
10-03-05 | 05:35 PM
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From the product number, it looks to me like a release from Music Video Distributors. They tend to release very poor quality versions (often of questionable legality). See, e.g., S.S. Experiment Love Camp from both MVD (sourced from a poor VHS-level fullframe tape) and Media Blasters (anamorphic widescreen).
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10-03-05 | 09:58 PM
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I wish someone would go out of their way and give this film a "proper" release! I bought a VHS version when I was a kid and watched it repeatedly until it became watery. It's a great film.
10-03-05 | 11:46 PM
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Unfortunately, this appears to have fallen into public domain hell - so every half-assed label can release their crappy DVD version, and nobody wants to spend any real money making a quality release because they figure they'd be competing with all the cheapies.
10-04-05 | 01:12 AM
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Many British-owned productions get stuck in PD hell, although they are not actually PD. See, for example, the plethora of supposedly PD releases of Alfred Hitchcock's British films, all of which had their US copyrights restored in the mid-1990s. British rightsholders rarely seem to enforce their rights over such productions, either out of lack of interest or that it doesn't appear to be an economically worthwhile battle to fight. So, the film elements end up staying controlled by an entity that never exploit them, and we get stuck with rehashed VHS transfers struck from theatrical prints back in the days when the film actually was in the public domain.
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