
Katharine Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen
As I am sure all of your classic film fans know, the great film The African Queen has oddly never been on dvd officially before. We all had to catch it on tv to watch it or tape it from tv. Well, they are finally releasing The African Queen on dvd and…Blu Ray!
According to Amazon the film will also be released on dvd, in what I will guess might be a bare bones edition with little to know special features which has become tradition now in dvd/blu ray releases. The studios want you to buy those blu rays. But do not quote me on this, hopefully there will be a two disc dvd set like they did for North by Northwest so dvd users are not left out.
Here is all of the details on the Blu Ray release. There will be a single disc edition as well as a collector’s set!
Thanks to Blu-Ray.com for the following information:
![]() A six-year journey filled with challenges nearly as difficult as those faced by Rose and Charlie, the restoration process began at the source: Romulus Films —one of the film’s original production companies— provided access to the original three-strip negative at a London facility where the film was carefully scanned and digitized. The separate elements were then transferred to Los Angeles and painstakingly recombined and inspected frame by frame to ensure that every detail aligned and that any dirt and scratches were removed. To ensure that the restored picture matched the filmmakers’ original vision, Paramount arranged a screening of an MPAA archive print for the film’s original cinematographer, Academy Award winner Jack Cardiff, whose comments were recorded live during the screening. That same archival print was later screened alongside the newly restored version so that the restoration team could ensure that all of Cardiff’s notes had been addressed. The result is a vibrant, warm picture that reverentially recreates the film as it was originally meant to be seen. ‘The African Queen’ will be available as a single disc Blu-ray and also in a Commemorative Limited Edition Blu-ray box set. Special features are as follows:
The Commemorative, Limited-Edition Blu-ray box set includes the above along with:
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