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Title: Not so wonderful colorizing
Review: Two-star rating is for technical quality, not the merit of this classic Frank Capra holiday film.IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE was one of the first motion pictures to undergo computer colorization in the mid-1980s. Results of this process were then at best mediocre. No true reds (they often look brown), and an overabundance of pastels and broad-brush tinting made this one of the color-enhanced movies that stigmatized the process, perhaps for all time.A 2007PARAMOUNT DVD releaseoffers both a b&w; and a reworked colorized edition, and is recommended. If a VHS is desired, stick with a major studio version, as all budget labels dubbed their tapes at slower speeds. Anything other than SP mode gives diminished video sharpness (and sometimes tracking problems).
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