Carry On: Collection 2

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The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie – Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., London 1977. (First Sphere Books Ltd., London edition 1978) The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are pastiches of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Begin your journey through the annals of the Carry Ons, Britain's longest-running comedy film series, with this 4-disc Blu-ray set featuring the first 4 films of the uproarious franchise - in high-definition for the first time anywhere in the world.

The Carry On film series has had numerous individual releases on VHS, and a number of VHSs were released in an eighteen VHS box-set on 1 September 2003. [28] The men's surgical ward of the Haven Hospital is staffed by an energetic nursing team under the watchful eye of Matron. Their suty time is taken up not only with nursing, but in attempting to control the riotous "shower" of patients who are always up to some prank or other. They also have to contend with the amorous advances of the patients! As usual, a lot of ignorance about cinema aspect ratios is on display. Every Carry On film was shot open matte, i.e. the whole 35mm frame was exposed but all the essential action took place in the middle. In cinemas the film was projected through an aperture plate which cut off the unwanted top and bottom of the image and projected the rest onto the standard "wide screen" which was 1.75:1 in the UK. Wide screens (i.e. wider than the hitherto standard "Academy Ratio" of 1.37:1) arrived in UK cinemas in the middle of 1953 and could be various ratios but after the introduction of CinemaScope wide screen standardised on 1.75:1 (in the UK, in the US they adopted 1.85:1 which simply meant that a bit more of the top and bottom of the frame was choppped off) . A typical circuit cinema had two ratios available, 2.35:1 ("Scope") and 1.75:1 ("wide screen"). The screen was a fixed height, with variable side masking. No other ratios were in normal use for general releases and all talk of 1.66:1 being an original theatrical ratio is bunkum. On many 16x9 tv's discs presented at 1.66:1 actually fill the screen due to overscan. Tanya Gold (28 September 2007). "Infamy? They've got it". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 12 December 2010. punking: Yep, the UK also have an ultimate collection (probably exactly the same content) on DVD, but they are all based on pre-existing SD transfers. Britbox's HD copies of Carry On Camping and Carry On Up The Khyber are pretty stunning, and were only remastered due to being the most instantly recognisable (Camping) and the one tied most directly to history (Khyber). Like the majority of other collectors, I also have a less-than-kosher DVD edition of Carry On Columbus to plug the gap, coming from the Island World video master.Carry On Dallas (1980), a spoof of the popular American soap opera Dallas was pursued in 1980. A script was written and casting offers made to Williams, Connor, Douglas, Sims, Windsor, Hawtrey and Dale. The production was abandoned when Dallas production company Lorimar Productions demanded a royalty fee of 20 times the total production budget. [12]

I`ve got the first two of these, the quality is hugely improved from the old DVD releases and they are finally in the correct aspect ratio. Carry on cruising looks especially good. The problem with the upcoming third set is that three of the four films are already on blu ray.A film had appeared in 1957 under the title Carry On Admiral; although this was a comedy in similar vein (and even featured Joan Sims in the cast) it has no connection to the Carry On series itself. The much earlier 1937 film Carry On London is also unrelated (though it coincidentally starred future Carry On performer Eric Barker). Carry On Robin (1965), a spoof of Robin Hood starring the Carry On regulars. Rogers outlined the film and registered it with the British Film Producers Association but never pursued it any further. [14]

But recently, HD masters of Nurse, Cruising. Spying& Teacher turned up on Sky Cinema (UK). The sum of all these masters amount to less than half of them, with couple of the series not even available in widescreen, as well as existing on (possibly) 30-40 year old transfers. Snelgrove, Kevin (2003). The Carry On Book of Statistics. Somerset: KAS Publications. ISBN 0-9544200-0-4. The films are spoofs of James Bond, Hollywood epic Cleopatra, American Westerns, and Hammer horror films, respectively. Ritman, Alex (30 May 2016). "British 'Carry On' Producer at Center of Series of Fraud Allegations". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 13 November 2016. Bright, Morris; Ross, Robert (2000). Mr Carry On – The Life & Work of Peter Rogers. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0-563-55183-6.Rogers and Thomas were responsible for all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew — some of whom were also regulars on the James Bond series, such as Peter Lamont, Alan Hume, and Anthony Waye. Between 1958 and 1992, the series employed seven writers, most often Norman Hudis (1958–1962) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–1974). Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced 12 films (1958–1966), the Rank Organisation made 18 (1966–1978), while United International Pictures produced one (1992). In The Spitting Image Book, released in 1985, there is a reference to a fictitious made-for-TV film entitled Carry On Up the Rectum, satirising the transparency of the puns used for Carry On Up the Khyber and possibly Carry On Up the Jungle. [35] Heath, Paul (12 April 2017). "Exclusive Interview: Jonathan Sothcott for We Still Steal The Old Way". The Hollywood News. CARRY ON FILMS LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . Retrieved 5 October 2023.

Sony don’t seem to, as they are sitting on the much more marketable and popular Confessions films. Think they were even happy for the DVD set to go OOP. Webber, Richard (2005). The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-718223-6. Begin your journey through the annals of Britain’s longest-running comedy film series with this 4-disc Blu-ray set featuring the first 4 films of the uproarious franchise – in high-definition for the first time worldwide. Carry On Sergeant (1958)Carry On Smoking (1961), revolving around a fire station and various attempts to train a bungling group of new recruits.