[78-L] Wizard of Oz in hidef

[Jeff Sultanof]

MGM struck Technicolor prints for a reissue in 1954. Some of them are still
in circulation, and they are beautiful.

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:11 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Sammy Jones wrote:
> > Ken wrote:
> >
> >> Today's audiences are so conditioned to the look of video that they
> >> think its an improvement over film.  Some of those video "restorations"
> >> are done by fools who destroy the original look of the film.
> >
> > Please tell me they're not cropping the Wizard of Oz to widescreen!
>
> And while they're at it, let's hope they colorize the first chunk. That
> sepia..
>
> dl
>
>
> >
> > I have the deluxe standard DVD set that was released a few years ago, and
> > the picture is splendid.  It's restored with a new process that involves
> the
> > scanning of each of the three individual monochrome Technicolor
> negatives.
> > The images are then aligned perfectly to make (they say) better looking
> > images than were achievable in the original release prints.
> >
> > I believe original nitrate Technicolor prints are used as a reference for
> > color saturation, etc.  I'm not sure what they do about the grain on the
> > negatives.  I hope they left it in...
> >
> > I haven't seen this version projected on the big screen, but on DVD it
> looks
> > great.  I assume the new theater release version probably uses the same
> > master.
> >
> > Sammy Jones
> >
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