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The Magic Box [1951] | ![The Magic Box [1951]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bVQrQ6gKL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Boulting
Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Renee Asherson, Richard Attenborough
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5055201800091
ASIN: B000N3T2N0
Theatrical Release Date: 1951
Release Date: June 4, 2007
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 Great Film, shame about the DVD!! July 16, 2007
Mr. L. N. Taylor (Essex, UK)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I was very pleased when I heard they had finally got around to releasing this classic movie. Unfortunately, Studio Canal have chosen to give us no extras whatsoever - not even subtitles!! This film was made for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and was a major movie at the time, so there must be loads of footage out there. No excuses, this is a big disappointment. The picture quality is fair, but the colour balance is pretty dreadful and it all looks slightly blurred. As for the sound, its the old mono soundtrack and it doesn't sound as if it's been remastered particularly well, if at all. I tend to think this may have been taken from a tape master as it really doesn't look a whole lot different from my VHS copy. Pity!
 A classic British movie. July 27, 2004
Awhite (USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was produced as a celebration of British cinema in the fifties. The film deals with the life of inventor William Frieze Greene the inventor of colour film, and his early life as one of the supposed inventors of the cinematograph. It is told in a series of moving flashbacks as Greene experiences a fatal heart attack at a strained meeting of cinema business tycoons. Robert Donut is superb in the role and a number of small cameo performances all well characterised give this film real pathos.Watch out for Olivier as the astonished and yet suspicious policeman plod, along with a young Peter Ustinov, more or less bereft of lines. The colour transfer is superb in video. Helen his first wife is a joy to behold as she delivers her lines with emotion, charm, and much tactile affection.
Recommended!!
Sad, but interesting April 6, 2005
Mr. Graham R. Dudley (United Kingdom)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
An impressive cast, a true story and a desperately sad conclusion. If you can stand being thoroughly depressed, this film is still worth a look, as it tells the fascinating, but tragic story of the invention of the film camera and celluloid film, itself.A very interesting film, with fine acting and excellent sets; it's worth watching for the historical merit, alone, but it is very, very sad!
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