A true epic

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 2010)

The thing which really astonishes me about GWTW is how artistically successful it is, given the time it was made. Sound was only 10 years old and full colour in a full length feature less than a year, yet GWTW - with three directors - uses both with a maturity that most movies still can't manage over 80 years later.
Rather than compliment the cast and production crew - there are plenty of comments here which say the same thing I would say - I want to sing the praises of the remastered DVD. The original 3 strip Technicolor had the 3 elements combined in an optical printer whenever a projection print was produced, and the mechanical process of doing this sometimes - often, if the DVD documentary is to be believed - produced far from perfect registration of the 3 elements. For the remastered DVD, new software has been written which enables the 3 elements to be registered digitally absolutely perfectly. As a result, the remastered DVD has the sharpest image most people will ever have seen, and I can confirm that this excellent film does indeed look better than I have ever seen it.