All posts tagged “Vintage Classics

The Gentle Gunman Blu-ray O-ring Packaging

The Gentle Gunman Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Another Vintage Classics, The Gentle Gunman Blu-ray and DVD packaging for Studiocanal. An Ealing Studios title that has been digitally restored. Adaptation of the original 1950s artwork, creating new backgrounds and layouts. Separating the title treatment from the main image enabled greater flexibility across formats, […]

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They Who Dare Blu-ray O-ring

They Who Dare Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

They Who Dare is a Vintage Classics title for Studiocanal, released on Blu-ray and DVD. A creative brief to use existing assets to create a sleeve to be adapted across formats. The rather restrictive nature of the existing images and posters provided the challenge. The […]

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The Servant Collector’s Edition

The Servant Collector’s Edition for StudioCanal using Edward Kinsella’s image, creating a title treatment and applying the design across the slipcase and booklet.  Collector’s Edition includes UHD 4K Blu-ray, 2 Blu-rays, 3 disc Digipak, Slipcase, 64-page Booklet and 4 Artcards.

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Odette Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Part of the Vintage Classics series for Studiocanal, Odette is Blu-ray and DVD inlay and O-ring sleeves. The brief was to portray Odette as a strong female lead character that previous sleeves had failed to represent. Making use of supplied poster artwork for the title […]

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Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD packaging for the StudioCanal Vintage Classics 60th Anniversary release. The Vintage Classic releases for StudioCanal have a distinctive style (fro other examples see them here), using areas of flatter colour that resemble vintage posters. The packaging fro Ice Cold in […]

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Melody Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Packaging for the Vintage Classic Blu-ray and DVD StudioCanal release of Melody. Having worked on a previous release of Melody (see below for an early 2D packshot) that didn’t have too many assets available, I thought that the Remaster wasn’t going to be the easiest of […]

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The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray O-ring Packaging

The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army […]

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Mandy Blu-Ray O-ring Packaging

Mandy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the […]

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The Proud Valley Blu-ray Oring Packaging

The Proud Valley Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that […]

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The Man Between Blu-ray Packaging

The Man Between Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and […]

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The Blue Lamp Blu-ray Packaging

The Blue Lamp Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the […]

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The Sound Barrier Blu-ray packaging

The Sound Barrier Blu-ray and DVD packaging

The Sound Barrier is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic title. Directed by David Lean and written by Terence Rattigan. Starring Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot, Ann Todd and Nigel Patrick, the film is about the men who challenged the speed of sound. I like the simplicity of the sleeve, but the […]

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Pool Of London Blu-ray Packaging

Pool Of London Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

I enjoy working on the Vintage Classic titles, some can be a real challenge with limited assets, while others have some really lovely old archival posters that cry out to be used. With Pool Of London I loved the original title treatment, but I was little sceptical about […]

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Payroll Blu-ray Packaging

Payroll Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

A Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. Payroll has got a couple of lovely, if poor quality, shots with beautiful ‘film noir’ lighting. This is a film that I had previously worked on, and the assets […]

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Lion In Winter Blu-ray Packaging

Lion In Winter Blu-ray and DVD packaging

Lion In Winter is a Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, featuring a very impressive cast of (the Oscar Winning) Katharine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Filmed in 1968 and directed by Anthony Harvey it’s the story of King Henry II’s obsession with finding […]

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I'm All Right Jack Blu-ray Packaging

I’m All Right Jack Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

A StudioCanal Vintage Classic, I’m All Right Jack stars the mighty Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas (he of the double-barrelled ‘uniname’). With a great supporting cast that features the likes of Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Margaret Rutherford and Liz Fraser. Directed by […]

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Darling Blu-ray O-ring Packaging

Darling Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Darling is a Vintage Classic from 1965 starring the stunning Julie Christie and also features Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey. I was supplied with some good assets for this title, some nice posters and still photographs. The supplied posters were classic 1960s poster I’ve seen referenced in […]

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Swallows and Amazons DVD and Blu-ray sleeves

Another Vintage Classics sleeve for StudioCanal, Swallows and Amazons is the 1974 film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s novel. Set in the 1920s, the story tells the tale of four children and their adventures on board their boat, the Swallow, whilst on holiday with their mother in the Lake […]

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