Just Imagine?

[ffutures]

The news of the original Metropolis cut being found reminded me that I've been trying to get a copy of the 1930 film "Just Imagine" for some time - it's an SF musical set in 1980, allegedly not terribly good but I want to see what their version of the future is like.

I've seen several reviews which give me the impression that it may have been available in the USA comparatively recently, possibly on tape or DVD. Anyone know anything about this?

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[webbob.livejournal.com]

If you haven't found any other source, I now own a DVD (recorded from Fox Movie Network) and would be happy to forward it to you. I'd offer to set it up to stream or download to you, but the MPEG blocks as recorded on the disc have odd errors which makes all the software I've tried so far barf when trying to recode it as a stream or transcode it at a lower bit rate to make it easy to download.

Just copying the DVD seems to work quite well enough for DVD players, however, so I have nothing to lose by passing along this copy.

My regular e-mail address is webber AT panix and that's in the US commercial top level domain.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Someone in the USA was selling it on ebay, and a friend there has ordered a copy for me, I'm waiting to hear from him when he receives it. But if that falls through I'll get back to you.

[webbob.livejournal.com]

Most likely the same vendor I bought mine from: your request reminded me of the movie, and of the fact that I'd not seen it through to the end.

Please do let me know if you need a copy after all, I'd be happy to send it along.