{"id":14043,"date":"2012-01-18T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2012-01-18T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:19:01","slug":"universal-restoring-classic-movies-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/01\/18\/universal-restoring-classic-movies-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Restoring Classic Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Universal-100th-Anniversary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14044\" title=\"Universal 100th Anniversary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Universal-100th-Anniversary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of their centennial celebrations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalstudios.com\/\">Universal<\/a> are restoring some of their classic films on Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p>The titles include some of the crown jewels of the studio archive, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/strong> (1930)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dracula<\/strong> (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frankenstein<\/strong> (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/strong> (1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Birds<\/strong> (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jaws<\/strong> (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial<\/strong> (1982)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This featurette explains some of the restoration processes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XXnu58AwvME\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is a good demonstration of how digital tools can be used to preserve a studio&#8217;s celluloid heritage.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/universal100.tumblr.com\/\">Official Tumblr site for Universal&#8217;s 100th Birthday<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/15\/from-celluloid-to-digital\/\">From Celluloid to Digital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their centennial celebrations Universal are restoring some of their classic films on Blu-ray, including Dracula, The Birds and Jaws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}