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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ A Star is Born (1937) – in Blu-ray

    Perhaps what Mr. L'abbate meant by saying "latent" is that Technicolor negatives are black and white records of the color information, but exhibit no color in and of themselves. When used to make a print in light or color, the color is revealed but no color is visible looking at the black and...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ A Star is Born (1937) – in Blu-ray

    Thanks for the reply. One of the things I have always loved about Technicolor IB prints is that blacks are much deeper and blacker than on color film prints. From what you say it would appear that the early dyes needed the G record to improve the blacks since the YCM dyes by themselves were...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ A Star is Born (1937) – in Blu-ray

    I bought both the Kino and Warner Star Is Born blu rays, not because it is a film I was especially eager to own, but because it presented a possibly unique opportunity to compare an excellent transfer from a Technicolor Nitrate print and a harvest from the OCN records. I have also been trying...
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