Colin J 4576RF64
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The news doing the rounds is that Disney has formally retired the 20th Century Fox name, which had been living on borrowed time since the studio was renamed 20th Century Studios a few years after the acquisition. It stays on older titles, obviously. Nothing reaches back into a disc already sitting on your shelf.
I am less interested in the corporate side than in what it does to presentation, because that is where this actually touches us. The searchlights and the fanfare at the head of a film are part of the thing for a lot of people, in the same way the old Universal globe or the Columbia torch lady are. When a studio reissues a catalogue title, the head of the print is one of the few places where somebody in an office can make a change and most viewers will not notice for years.
That matters for anyone building a physical library. Restorations get done once and then the same master carries forward, but branding on packaging, on menus and on the spine gets refreshed with every reissue, and that is how you end up with a shelf where the same six films look like they came from four different companies.
What I would genuinely like to know from the collectors here is whether anyone has spotted the studio card actually being swapped on recent 4K reissues of older Fox titles, or whether the original head material has been left alone every time. My own copies are all older pressings so I have nothing useful to compare against.
I am less interested in the corporate side than in what it does to presentation, because that is where this actually touches us. The searchlights and the fanfare at the head of a film are part of the thing for a lot of people, in the same way the old Universal globe or the Columbia torch lady are. When a studio reissues a catalogue title, the head of the print is one of the few places where somebody in an office can make a change and most viewers will not notice for years.
That matters for anyone building a physical library. Restorations get done once and then the same master carries forward, but branding on packaging, on menus and on the spine gets refreshed with every reissue, and that is how you end up with a shelf where the same six films look like they came from four different companies.
What I would genuinely like to know from the collectors here is whether anyone has spotted the studio card actually being swapped on recent 4K reissues of older Fox titles, or whether the original head material has been left alone every time. My own copies are all older pressings so I have nothing useful to compare against.
