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I blind-bought a Flynn DVD from Warner Archive that I did not care a lot for called Another Dawn. Looking back on it, it is kind of fun in that it is the sort of romantic love triangle movie that is often satirized in movies in which two men love the same woman and one makes a "noble sacrifice".
Can you be more specific? What other Elizabeth I movie are you referring to? I can’t think of one that was in Black & White. Both of the Bette Davis versions were in color.
Sorry I was scanning thru my phone and saw the lead picture in B&w and thought it was the one w Flora Robson I recently saw which was excellent. Fire Over England to be exact. My bad.
That's with Flora Robson playing QE I (once again she played her again in The Sea Hawk). It also has another actress - but I've forgotten her name - you'll have to give me a little Leigh way
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Ah yes that actress Rock Hudson asks if she were in Gone With the Wind at George Cukor's dinner party in "Hollywood" currently on Netflix.That's with Flora Robson playing QE I (once again she played her again in The Sea Hawk). It also has another actress - but I've forgotten her name - you'll have to give me a little Leigh way
Fire Over England is also on blu-ray via Cohen with three other films.
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Why would Warner Brothers go to all the expense of Technicolor, all those beautifully (Natalie Kalmus approved) brightly colored costumes and sets to end up with the jaundiced skin tones and strongly degraded blues, purples and greens? I'm sorry, but that doesn't make sense. Look at the snippets of blue sky that are visible at the tops of these clips. Look at Olivia's urine-colored face (where's the pink complexion and those blushed cheeks?) and the brilliant purple feathered thing that she's waving in the Warners clip above has turned to gray - it all looks oddly similar to 2 strip Technicolor.The forthcoming Blu-ray is based upon a natural color scheme, as used in the 1968-71 safety re-prints.
The original color was the warm, muted palette of GWTW, and other late 1930s productions.
The difference is extremely interesting, as it shows the palette actually captured by the Technicolor process, as opposed to that as color timed for release printing.
Both are correct. If money was no object, and obviously it is, I'd have a multiple disc set, as the appearance is quite different.
The rationale for going with the more natural palette is simple. Most modern viewers are ill-equipped to understand the earlier look, and appreciate it's beauty. I would presume complaints galore from many without the understanding of the background of color history in cinema.
For those interesting in seeing that original look, and with a huge tip of the hat to UCLA and color guru and archivist Barbara Flueckiger, go here:
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Nothing “degraded” about the color. It is as intended.
These are not organic dyes.
The documentary coronation clips wouldn't have natural color? Even Disney? Was Snow White intended to have light umber skin tones, the trees in the background too? Doc is yellow?
