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Old 05-18-2007, 02:16 AM   #13
Chad Varnadore Chad Varnadore is offline
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Originally Posted by buckshot View Post
old technicolor films like the searchers look absolutely amazing. the only reason they look different than newer movies is because of the differences in film chemicals. technicolor has more vivd colors than real life and new films are geared to as realistic as possible. I would love to see other technicolor classics come to bluray. if monument valley looks that amazing in the searchers imagine how rural ireland will look in the quiet man. the bad part in 1 channel audio.

As I understand it the color for The Searchers had to be completely redone from the ground up due to the condition of the source, which illustrates my point, as aside from being extremely saturated, it doesn't unnatural or lacking even in chroma.
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