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Sorry, I had not thought of approaching Executive Action from the point of view if ascribing more merit to it than it deserves because I may or may not agree with its politics. Sure, it shows how a right wing coup could have assassinated JFK, and the one theory they did not seriously pursue is the (...

On another occasion, I posted some captures from the widescreen version.

blunted has sent me a tape of his "window-boxed" version. I did not know a full-frame laserdisc of the "restored" ToE ever exisited? I looked at it on TV, and did not see any difference, but will try to post a comparison or two this evening. Also, I think I have the widescreen version working now, s...

I hope Welles was not involved in some (Robert)Kennedy/Assasination/Conspiracy theory. I saw Executive Action when it came out. It had about as much credence as the "documentary" on Nostradamus. Maybe that's where Welles comes in?

I did some captures from the full screen version and posted them here once.

Jeff: I will look at it when I get home tonight. I have already transferred the fullscreen version to DVD-R, so it will be easy to do my captures from it.

Anyone have any favorite scenes they'd like to compare?

R Kadin: That laserdisc is almost certainly the pre-restored version. Previously, ToE was only available at a very short running time, based, I think on TV prints. There was a laserdisc released of a longer version with extra scenes and a better source print, and it was sometimes touted as "restored...

I am inclined to believe the current aspect ration was chosen to appeal to people with 16x9 TVs. When everyone had "square" TV's widescreen movies were cropped on the sides in order to fill up the screen. Who knows how many "square" movies will suffer now that the TV standard is widescreen. Already,...

It is not really "rot", but it refers to a gradual deterioration of the disc. I was heavily into laserdiscs during their heyday, and lost quite a few to the dreaded rot. Luckily, Pioneer replaced a good many of them, and Ken Crane's (now DVD Planet) replaced a few for me. It usually manifests itself...

mteal: Because I upgraded my DiSH Network receiver to one with a hard drive that records up to 100 hours, I did not feel the need for a DVD recorder to have such a harddrive. Since I would mainly have used the HD for recording off of Fox, TCM, etc, I can already do that with the Dish DVR receiver. H...

All my transfers from VHS or laserdisc to DVD-R have been via a Panasonic stand-alone recorder. Considering that all my video "stuff" is all together there, it makes it relatively simple to plug them all into the recorder. I even record from my satellite dish (with DVR) with it. When I bought the re...

And if Che Guevara were alive, he'd probably be able to get a gig reading the news at CBS. Oh, wait. They already have a dictator-loving leftist stooge reading the news over there. Never mind.... -EDIT- Pic removed. (It was a pic of Dan Rather hugging a guy he really admires-that great humanitarian:...

Jaime: the Tynan article that Orson regarded as a "stab in the back" was almost certainly Tynan's review of Welles' staged version of Othello, which Tynan tastelessly titled "Citizen Coon".

I think RTG would be more spooky and mysterious if we had not all seen countless episodes of Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents,and others of their ilk. In its time, it was probably considered a clever and gripping story. I really like the atmosphere (a strong sense of cold and damp) and the s...

Sir Bygber: I like your characterization of Griffith as "more literary than cinematic". I think I'd add to it and say "more tableaux than moving images". His movies look interesting when you see stills from them, but when you see the actual movie, it's kind of the same experience as looking at the s...