The Adventures Of Robin Hood 1938 HDDVD VC1 1080p 2.0 WMV-IGUANA
IGUANA group who mainly release HDrips in WMV format suitable for playing on X360 (you can play this on PC too), has released this classic, i dare to say oldskool movie – in HD of course. This one is in 1080p but on fullscreen mode. It’s filmed in 1938 after all. As far i know, torrent is not available on public trackers yet. So you’ll need to wait a lil’ before it appears.
Plot: Based on the well-known English legend, Robin of Locksley is a noble who is forced to become an outlaw when Prince John the usurper tries to take the throne from his absent brother. He flees to Sherwood forest where he gathers together his Merry Men and is called Robin Hood. He begins to rob the rich and give back to the poor, the townsfolk that are heavily-taxed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Meanwhile he still has to defend the throne, and woo Maid Marian.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (14,851 votes)
Directed by: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains
Release Name: The.Adventures.Of.Robin.Hood.1938.HDDVD.VC1.1080p.2.0.WMV-IGUANA
Size: 7.98 GB
Runtime: 102 minutes
Video Quality: 1480×1080, 23.976 fps, 11 Mbps bitrate
Audio Quality: 48 KHz, 192 kbps, 2 channels, WMA3
Samples: #1, #2, #3, #4, Thumbs, Video
Filenames: iguana-robinhood.1080p.2.0
Comments(67)
1938 movie in 1080p, wow.
yeah and in colour
This is a classic
good to see some classics here!
how is that possible? 1938 and high definition?!? someone please explain how they do that…they had hd cams in 1938 or what?!?!?
peace.
This is not shot in DH..
so pretty useless to release in HD DVD.
yeah, nothing is correct here.
in 1938, color film was non-existent yet…not until the late fifties.
this makes no sense to me, whatsoever, but it’s all real, so I do trust IMDb on this one. 1938- Color-1080p- it couldn’t get any more ridiculous-sounding, unless it was in Academy aspect as well…
But, hey, it got an 8.2 on IMDb, so maybe I’ll give ‘er a whirl!
happy hunting.
I paid thruppence (thats 3 pence or 1.5p in decimal currency) to see this at the cinema. The screen was about 15 feet high. Is that HD?
The 1949 Bugs Bunny version “Rabbit Hood” is a classic too!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bUJhgESjIk0
@5 : they didn’t have “HD” Cameras back then, it was all shot with film…good ol great quality film. Film reels.
lol this release only miss THX or ac3 sound..
seriously, I wonder what the majors are thinking.. release a movie from 1938 that was initialy in black and white as *colored* and upscaled in HD to 1080p…
lol 1938 ?
Ok, for guys who asking “how old movie can be in HD?”, just google this:
“old movies in hd”
without quotes, and you’ll find a lot of answers.
Here are some of them:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f142/old-movies-hd-quality-231393/
http://www.highdefforum.com/showthread.php?t=27017
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7813_102-0.html?forumID=60&threadID=244334&messageID=2467444
http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/features/2624/blade-runner-on-the-cutting-edge.html
to answer all of the HD questions: This movie is considered “HD” because the height is 1,080 pixels…or it’s close to it. Yes, it’s 4:3 ratio, but it doesn’t mean it can’t be HD, because it is. I know, 1938 and color & HD doesn’t make “a lick of sense”, but it’s there. deal with it.
This was the first bi-budget movie shot and released in color. So no mistakes were made there…
Of course color film existed in 1938. Other color films of that era include The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. This is an early example of 3-strip Technicolor where three 35mm negatives are exposed, each recording a different color. Modern digital equipment can remove the aging from each negative separately to restore phenomenal color and detail.
@5
Three strip Technicolor, that is was the medium in which this film was shot, was available starting in 1931. And earlier 2 color or two strip processes from about 1917. The reason it seems like there were no color films back then is because it was a very, very expensive process to be used only on the most important of projects.
Yes folks, they did have color movies in 1938. This version of “Robin Hood” is a fine example of that. It is not “colorized.” It was originally shot in color. “Gone With the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz” were both shot in 1939 and they are in color.
Not only did they have color, they had Technicolor. That is a process that really makes the colors “snap” off the screen.
There are some oldies that are really goodies. This one is a goodie. Enjoy.
It was shot in Technicolor but many movies from that era has been colorized years after being released.
Hey I guess I want to see this.
HD and color.
Must have been quite a job for those who remastered it. Hopefully my computer can show it
Looking at the .nfo, it’s nice to see that iGUANA takes players like tvix or PCH in consideration for their rip!
Thanks.
What about some Citizen Kane or Metropolis…? Maybe another RLSlog category “Classics” which would mean time proven an “tested” films so to speak.
and there is also color photos from WW1 around 1914-1918
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/html/ww_i_h_33.html
great movie saw it when I was kid would love to see more clasics like gunga din
It was shot on FILM of course. You know… – that thing we’ve been using up until very recently that resolves to a much higher resolution than 1080p?
A post from the CDfreaks website someone posted a link to:
Dalen Quaice said.
“programs on 35mm film will resolve at least 4K resolution, which is 4096 pixels by 3112 pixels…. this is quite a bit greater than HD at 1920 by 1080.”
As long as the source is good enough you can make it HD.
All 35mm cinema film is hi def, in fact I think it has a higher resolution than what we now have settled on.
Interesting fact.
Is this that Robin Hood movie with Kevin Costner? 1938? could be that one.
FAIL.
does maid marion get naked in this?
http://rapidshare.com/files/99214238/mdx-robin.hood.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/99214247/mdx-robin.hood.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/99224093/mdx-robin.hood.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/99214982/mdx-robin.hood.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/99224266/mdx-robin.hood.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/99215634/mdx-robin.hood.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/99215648/mdx-robin.hood.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/99223288/mdx-robin.hood.part8.rar
@27 (Gill Bates):
Oooh, you’re funny.
I hope…
It’s not that colour film didn’t exist back then, it did, just nothing had been manufactured for consumers that could show the colours yet.
i see this on TV either BBC or Channel 5
well its a classic
and any robin hood fan would love this
@33
Just realized, I have seen it too, was on tv…
And it’s OK, not the best movie of all time like Blade Runner but worth watching if someone has not seen it before.
Would be perfect for someone who likes old movies and musicals.
Well at least we’re on the same page now… Filmed in 1938, redone in color years later, and now people took the film reel and cleaned ‘er up! Not so sure if they took the original film reel or the colored version reel, but meh, some people will be happy with this rls
@26
so should have known.
My biggest movie disappointment was when I went to see Star Wars episode 2.
Flicker, flicker, flicker. Probably the experience was better in the 30s with the big cinemas compared to the small ones now.
No digital cinema in this town
The movie was not that great either, but better than episode 3 (stupid me went to see it in cinema too, that time less flicker and better sound as I went to a better one in another town but adolescent fighting most of the movie, well, Lucas said they are not made for adults but still.. ..he should make episodes 7-9 for an adult audience)
They record movies on analogue films, so they can make it digital in every resolution (HD too) they like. The only problem is the noise, but they have Photoshop
Go figure, in 1938 the quality they had in analogue film actually surpassed the actual digital 1080p! Sometimes it seems we´re not progressing at all, lol!
not bothered about quality, just want to know if marion gets naked
Just as with the launch of DVD in the 90’s the studios are releasing any old crap on to blu-ray.
Maybe they will rerelease on to Blu-ray the first film footage shot 1890’s when the train come towards the screen and everybody watching itrun out the room because the stupidly thinks it real.
@40
So this is “any old crap” now? I guess that’s why it has a rating of 8.2 on IMDB is currently placed #116 on the top 250.
@ 34, Armstrong14
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“Well at least we’re on the same page now… Filmed in 1938, redone in color years later, and now people took the film reel and cleaned ‘er up! Not so sure if they took the original film reel or the colored version reel, but meh, some people will be happy with this rls
Can’t you read? the movie was shot in 1939 and it has NOT been colorized later cause it was shot WITH colors in 1939!
If this movie was filmed with a film camera (which it was), then that old film could simply be rescanned into a computer and cleaned up etc as the film certainly was HD.
I can’t seem to see what 1080p! resolution and the fact that film reels have a higer resolution have to do with progressing. I mean 1080p! is a TV standard not a cinema standard
oops…
Any RS links for this???
The ‘Queen Rocks Montreal’ concert was shot in 35mm and has been released in Hi-Def
Info would make MUCH more sense if someone were just lysdexic. I mean, 1938? C’mon, 1983 sounds about right.
synonymous
March 13th, 2008 | 20:07
Info would make MUCH more sense if someone were just lysdexic. I mean, 1938? C’mon, 1983 sounds about right.
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No, this was the original movie and the date of 1938 is correct. Look it up on Google or IMDB if you wish.
So… a 1080p movie in less than 8Gb?
Amazing. I guess what I said is true… Blu-Ray really did lose the format war.
The true champion is a good Media Center + High-Def releases online!
Public link anyone?
In 70 years time when someone wants to watch Grindhouse (yeah right) on their super duper ultra hi-def stereoscopic floating oled tv thing. What they hell are they going to do?
Please correct me if I am wrong (I hope I am) but don’t modern HD video cameras capture at a maximum of 1920×1080?
I appreciate the merits of digital, for certain it’s a hell of a lot cheaper and it must make the editing process far quicker but it seems pretty short sighted to limit ourselves to a resolution which even by our own traditional and ‘old fashioned’ analogue standard is low.
Then again I suppose it depends upon the size of the screen used for playback. There has to be a sensible limit and in the average house is there much demand for anything beyond 40″-50″? At that small size would a major increase in resolution be appreciable?
Check this out:
http://www.monky.ro/hifi/full-hd-not-enough-think-super-hd
When this technology is around and inevitably surpassed what the hell is a 1080p movie going to look like upscaled to that? Shocking to think but this film ‘The Adventures Of Robin Hood’, in a couple of hundred years time will probably look great at those sorts of resolutions (and higher)!
I guess the auteurs of the movie world will stick to film..
Someone please tell me that big ass expensive professional digital cameras are shooting at ridiculously high resolutions.
People are funny.
@ terrified joe,
movies made today are shot with 4K (4000×2000) camera’s so when that screen is commercially available and we have a distributable media capable of storing a movie in 4K on a disc then I guess we could say that renting a movie in a 4K format would be the same as renting the producers master tapes.
though, it wouldn’t be exactly the truth.
on the other hand, I think that right now we’re at the peak of what quality movies we consumers can download over the internet for a very long time. The problem is that a regular one and a half hour movie in 4K is ~12TB (twelve Terrabytes!!) in size and I find it hard to believe that people would be interested in dealing with those sizes on p2p networks any time soon..
To all of the ‘tards saying ’1938, HD, how, why? How stupid, what a waste of time’. Film. Film has very high resolution, especially the film used for most Hollywood movies dating back many decades. So if there are any good existing sources for a movie such as this, ‘High Definition’ is not an issue as the film used can resolve detail to 1080P and beyond. It’s similar to modern 35mm still camera film in many cases, and modern 35mm film in particular can contain information far, far greater than 1920×1080 of the 1080P ‘High Definition’ format.
Has anyone seen any 35mm versus HD tests? I’d be curious to know if the human eye can even detect the difference between 1920×1080 and 4096×2160, which is 2160p, also referred to as Quad HD (see the rather short wikipedia entry for 2160p). I bet we’d be hard pressed to detect any difference. Not that we’ll see any 4096×2160 monitors or media big enough to hold 12,000 GB anytime soon (I would wager 10 years on either of those).
The first movie I have seen when I was a child, a classic !
Waiting for dl it !
Keep it up the good work
deaf audiophile, you will see the difference depending on screen size. 35mm film has a resolution greater than 4k, so it looks amazing on huge cinema screens. A 1080p and 2160p will look worse on a cinema sized screen, but you wouldn’t notice the difference on a 60″ screen.
I can’t find any links for this. Anyone with more luck?
Downloaded this movie from TPB months ago. Excellent quality and sound and yes original movie was in colour.
Hard to find these old classics
Anyone got a source for this yet?!
aXXo release?
Just to say that 35mm film has twice the quality in each frame as HD requires, HD is 1920 x 1080 pixels and all films shot since the 1920′s on 35mm has 4000 x 4000 pixels when scaned into the computer, so it’s incredible to see these old movies in HD, I have just watched Casablanca, it’s Black and White, 4×3 and yet it was one of the best quality HD films that I have ever watched, I cant wait to see The Adventures Of Robin Hood in High Definition, trust me, Get one and see for yourself, it’s like traveling back in time and being there.
This is kinda freaking. I didn’t know colored Erol Flynn Robin Hood version was made in 1938. I didn’t know there was colored movies in 1938.
Also This is not a HD movie, just a upscaled movie, HR.
It don’t need to be shooted with High Definition digital cameras, but quality analog cameras can be converted into “True” HD easily. But in this movie, I see not HD quality, just HR.
Is anyone ever going to upload this film in HD, It says under this torrent, ” Not Yet ” surely they should not be allowed to submit dertails of the torrent when it’s not actually active yet, A complete waste of peoples time as I have been looking every day for about 4 weeks to get this film from this site.
good one!