20 Million Miles To Earth / It Came From Beneath The Sea - 8/19/14 Pre-order

[EManT2200]

Originally Posted by Hubunkey

Wonder if they will be the Colorized versions or the original Black & White

Just checked over at Amazon, it looks like it will only be the black and white versions.

[Blu-Velvet]

Originally Posted by EManT2200

Just checked over at Amazon, it looks like it will only be the black and white versions.

That's certainly a good sign, as they should look a bit better than squeezing four films on one disc, although with such short movies even that shouldn't look too bad if there are no bonus features (like the surprisingly decent but not great Gamera sets). The colorized versions looked somewhat better than I was expecting but still mostly seem more like moving hand-tinted lobby-cards than like films actually shot in color.

Unfortunately the black and white versions look like they are slightly reduced in contrast with oddly distorted gamma so that the colorizing could be more effective, rather than like original rich black-and-white contrast that other Sony/Columbia B&W titles have. I doubt if these are new black-and-white masters but if they were they might actually be worth a double-dip.