I'm sure I've seen either VHS or DVD copies of 'Meet Mr. Lucifer' on the shelves at Virgins or HMV, but a search on Amazon UK didn't reveal anything. If you manage to track down 'Simon & Laura' I'd be very interested to hear about it. I was having a pint and a chat with a friend who is a Vistavision nut and former preservationist with the BFI/NFTVA. He told me that, sadly, original elements don't appear to survive in good enough condition to make a proper restoration possible - 4-perf seps are the nearest extant material, and even on those the shrinkage differential ain't nice. The film is one of my favourites, and IMHO a wonderfully sarcastic take both the emergence of television, cinema's technological fightback and the social aspects of 1950s end of the age of austerity consumerism; the 'you've never had it so good' ideology. For those who aren't familiar with the film, it features Peter Finch and Kay Kendall as the stars of a TV soap opera. In the show they play an idyllically married couple; but off it their marriage is on the rocks and they can't stop fighting. This scenario then simmers through a series of incidents motivated by the producer trying to save their marriage and thereby save his ratings. The denouement comes during the live broadcast of the show's Christmas special, in which the tensions get too much and they have an unscripted and almighty row in front of millions of viewers, while the producer gazes at his monitor in utter horror, contemplating imminent unemployment. I've only ever seen the film in a manky, panned and scanned off-air VHS, but the contrast of flickery 405-line TV sets shown within the pin-sharp Vistavision image must have added a lot to the humour. Leo ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org