Brilliant saturation highlights every scene. There are a few minor registration errors, but the transfer seems to doing some magic all its own. The color pulsing, so endemic to many older three strip films, is also lassoed in on this transfer. Every once in a while I thought I saw a trace of it, but something masked it beautifully. Sharpshooters will admire Annie Get Your Gun for its resolution of detail.
Contrast is consistently eye popping.
Betty Hutton literally has to be contained from jumping onto your lap in the home theater. But the blaze of rich color is the unparalleled prize in this shootin' match. The mono sound is fine and dialogue and songs cleanly delivered. There was one moment when something Davenport said reverberated, but it was likely my surround processor playing tricks on me. The original opening number Colonel Buffalo Bill directed by Berkeley is also included with a brief shot of Frank Morgan as Buffalo Bill.