Fwd: Italian UFO 5 DVD box set part 2

Here are some more comments from Christian Jenisch about the new
Italian UFO DVDs...

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Hi Marc,

here my impressions about the content of the DVDs:

First I was impressed by the animated menu of the DVD: three flying
saucers out of space heading towards the screen and then back to
Earth. Then came the UFO letters in with the appropriate music,
just like in the show. Great! Ahead with Moonbase and inside through
the corridor into the command center. One can see the radarscreen
with the episode titles and a short version of the main title on it
and in the background the window which one can see - of course - the
moonscape. If you wait long enough, you can watch a UFO passing by
followed by an interceptor. The best menu so far, better than the
Carlton and A&E ones!

If you select an episode you will be accompanied through another
corridor into the room for the interceptor pilots. You choose "Lancio
Immediato" and jump into the tube to the episode. They went to great
trouble with that menu. Congratulations! I also like the menu for the
audio options with SID heading over a rotating Earth.

The episodes are in three Italian versions and the English one. One
of the Italian version is in stereo - but, of course, in
pseudostereo. It's a mixture of reverb, double mono and a changing
from left to right or the other way round, sometimes even in mono
(when music and speech can be heard together). Not bad, but nothing
for purists.

The extra features seems to be the same one as with the Carlton DVDs
- at least on DVD 1. There are the same small pictures from the
episodes and from behind-the-scenes. Well, I'll have to compare it
with the UK ones. Of course, there are the scripts as PDF files.

I can't resist to check the bonus DVD, too. And this one is most
interesting! It includes the feature film INVASION: UFO which is not
of the same picture quality like the episodes (see examples) but
that's OK for me because this is a rather dull made up of some
episodes, therefore it fits :-) Well, it even has some charm this way
round! The film is in English too. Furthermore it contains the
trailer for this movie.

The best part is the interview with Ed Bishop in English with Italian
subtitles, lasting for 34 minutes! I have watched only snippets so
far but it seems to be very interesting, well, at least enjoyable.
Hey, there is even a hidden feature on this DVD! When you select the
Bishop interview and skip it forward after the last (third)
track you'll see the animated UFO on the moonsurface which start
to glow and then you can enjoy 5 minutes from the ISOSHADO files!
Excerpts from the visits of George Sewell, Wanda Ventham, Dolores
Mantez (singing together with Mike B.), Gabrielle Drake, Mike
Billington and of course Ed Bishop, some shots of the models and
merchandising and the famous wig of Mr Bishop. Now, *that* is a great
bonus! :-))

The DVD-ROM part contains PDF files of a 10 page Press kit from
INVASION: UFO, a 60 page Press kit about the series and the 25 page
transcript from INVASION: UFO.

So far for today (and again it is way beyond midnight - but I'll had
to do this :-)
More following tomorrow!
Christian

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And here are the attachments Christian sent along with this e-mail:

http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdBishop.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdInvasionMenu.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdInvasionPoster.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdInvasionPromo.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdInvasionQuality1.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdInvasionQuality2.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdMenuUFO.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/temp/itDvdMenuInterceptor.jpg

By the way, I asked Christian about the script PDF files on the
Italian UFO DVDs -- he said that they appear to be scans of the
actual shooting scripts. If so, I'd say that's a pretty significant
extra feature!

Marc