Opening to The Longest Day- 1998 Fox Video Widescreen Series edition
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The first ever VHS release of The Longest Day in its' original 2.35:1 CinemaScope aspect ratio. You'll see the most recent update of Fox's Widescreen Series promo, promoting new additions Volcano, Romeo + Juliet and Speed 2 (but neglecting to mention Patton, The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora!, which were released in the same wave of letterboxed tapes) , the original theatrical trailer for the 1962 wide release, the THX logo and the beginning of the film.
The Longest Day is one of the best WWII dramas ever filmed and amongst several "Spot the Star" epics released in 1962. The story of D-Day is told from both the Allied, Axis and French Resistance perspectives.
On my 1980 Magnetic VHS, the opening titles were chyroned in for some reason and are clearly videotaped.
That master was used from 1977 until at least early 1986.
The 20th Century-Fox logo did appear in the 1984 VHS release of The Longest Day.
You must be thinking of the 1986 release, in one sleeve that holds two tapes but still says 1984. The actual 1984 release was two tapes in two individual slips, with CBS/Fox and 1984 on the boxes and labels, but it was the same Magnetic tape master from 1977 with the sound upgraded to HiFi. No 20th Century Fox logo on it.
The Fox Widescreen Series trailers should have been like this. Number one: "Speed", "True Lies", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "The Abyss". Number two: "The Lost World", " Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "The Poseidon Adventure", and " The Towering Inferno ". Number three: the Die Hard trilogy and Strange Days. Number four: Volcano, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Romeo & Juliet, and Independence Day. Number five: Broken Arrow, The Agony and the Escasty, the Planet of the Apes legacy, and History of the World, Part I.
And for widescreen movies that weren't in the trailers, they should be the Alien quadtrilogy; The Longest Day, Von Ryan's Express, Patton, and Tora! Tora! Tora!; and, M*A*S*H, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Edward Scissorhands, and The War of the Roses.
Yeah, with that rich CinemaScope library they had, they barely released anything from that era on widescreen VHS. To my knowledge all they issued from that era was The Robe, The King and I and Carousel.
They did release Tora! Tora! Tora! and Patton on widescreen VHS. The Alien set was also issued twice.
Can you make Widescreen Series VHS openings of "Patton" and "Tora! Tora! Tora!"? For Patton, you can tell people thru CZcams that it is the very first movie in Dimension 150 variant of Todd AO.
And I am just saying that The Lost World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The 1962 Version of "State Fair", and Von Ryan's Express could've been CinemaScope Widescreen Series VHSes too.
At 4:23, why is the English subtitles appears on the bottom of the black bar instead on the bottom of the frame?
That was the common practice for foreign films that were letterboxed in the VHS era in the late 80s-early 90s. Siskel and Ebert said on their special What's Wrong with Home Video? that it was done to make the subtitles easier to read on TV sets. Got to remember this was before widescreen HDTV and anamorphic enhancement became the norm.
It's like the same thing in the 1999/2000 DVD release of this movie.
@@annanieman52 Because they used the same master and anamorphic enhancement hadn't yet become the standard.
The subtitles also would be really small if presented in-frame and at their original size, and they figured they would also intrude on the picture. So one long sentence was broken up over two or more screens. A prime example from the 1995 releases of Star Wars: “Jabba put a price on your head so high...” “...every bounty hunter in the galaxy will be looking for you.” In the original prints, it was just one long sentence running from one side of the screen to the other.
20th Century Fox logo did not appear in the Blu-ray release of "The Longest Day".
The Twentieth Century Fox logo was in the movie; however, it was hard to be shown due to a just-black screen.
It’s supposedly on some prints if the movie, but I’ve never seen a print of The Longest Day with anything at the beginning besides the fade-in on the helmet.