The potential misconception of studio support

[Deciazulado]

The new Dracula release seems to look better and be correctly recentered compared to the previous one. I hope it was done in a new high resolution scan of the surviving elements. (The original negative is supposedly long gone) so if that's true I look foward to the Blu-ray version of it one day.

Old films, specifically those shot in black and white film before the mid 50's switch to widescreen (This includes Technicolor films, which were shot with b/w negative) have a bigger negative area than the formats currently used today in most films (New films: 10 and 11 mm per picture height for Super35 and 1.85 widescreen respectively. Old films: 15mm per picture height. Technicolor films: 3 of those per image frame) . So if properly cared and restored from the original negative they will hold pretty well on High Definition.

I can barely wait!