Showing posts with label Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948). Show all posts

Friday, 10 September 2021

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

The Warner Archive blu-ray and the Warner DVD sound the same and have plenty of noise reduction.

The Amazon Video download, however, doesn't have any. Strangely, a 12-second segment in it starting at 00:46:30 (blu-ray timecode) has some music that's out of sync relative to the dialogue and that glitches partway before repeating and continuing. It's also missing entirely a 27-second music cue starting at 00:52:50, in the scene where the men are digging wells. The track's lopsided waveform (not audible) can be corrected with a simple phase rotation (also not audible).

There's also a relatively untouched version of the film that was on the BBC iPlayer that sounds worse than the Amazon download.

Update (9/17/2021): The Image LaserDisc, while extremely clean and less distorted than the later editions, has no real bass detail at all. I played around with EQing it, but that information just doesn't exist down there. It's the only version that has the full opening music just after the Selznick logo intact; the DVD, Amazon download, and the blu-ray are all missing a few seconds of music at about 00:00:15.000. The scene with the well-digging has the intended music cue, like the blu-ray and DVD. The Amazon download sounds a lot better overall.