Thursday, April 08, 2004
Yellow Layer Failure
Here's a great new column by film restorer Robert A. Harris.
At the other end of the problematic preservation spectrum one will find a film like Meet Me in St. Louis*.
Produced in 1944, sixty years ago, and with high quality surviving elements, Warner Bros. has taken the three-strip Technicolor records and created what (to my eye) is the most perfect representation of the three-strip process yet to hit DVD.
To give this DVD anything less than a rating of ten on a scale of ten would be understatement. It should probably rank an eleven for perfection.
he DVD of Meet Me in St. Louis* is nothing short of amazing, and kudos should go out to the entire team that took these elements through the digital process, as well as those who gathered the additional material found on the disc and worked to make them available. The huge list of extras is inclusive of the pilot episode for a TV series and a Vitaphone short entitled Bubbles, the earliest surviving material on the Gumm sisters, apparently originally produced in two color Technicolor, but surviving only in black & white.
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