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Fox's 1947 Miracle on 34th Street, for which character actor Edmund Gwenn won an Academy Award, shows what one can do with a quality black & white film element when it isn't digitally over-processed. Shot on the same stock as It's a Wonderful Life, and possibly a generation down from that title, Mo34S glistens with beautiful blacks, a rich gray scale, and exhibits no digital artifacts, presenting a rendering of the film that is decidedly film-like.
Viewers will note the generation loss for printer functions, built in to the fades and dissolves, which creates an occasional analogue edginess, but this is in the film element, has been there for 62 years.
The film holds up beautifully, with superb performances, including that from a nine year old Natalie Wood.
The Blu-ray of Miracle on 34th Street is everything that IaWL should have been, and was not.
Highly Recommended.
RAH
Viewers will note the generation loss for printer functions, built in to the fades and dissolves, which creates an occasional analogue edginess, but this is in the film element, has been there for 62 years.
The film holds up beautifully, with superb performances, including that from a nine year old Natalie Wood.
The Blu-ray of Miracle on 34th Street is everything that IaWL should have been, and was not.
Highly Recommended.
RAH