Perhaps a different set designer was involved under Berkeley's direction as well. George Sidney does a fine job of putting setting the two major montages to music with quick snippets of the merry-go whirlwind of Annie Oakley's life with the big show. Somewhere behind the scenes, maybe even over the rainbow, the tasteful influence of MGM master musical producer is looking over the production. The screenplay by Sidney Sheldon moves like a Gatling gun and the scoring by Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens keeps apace. The Technicolor is a as spectacular as the staging and music.
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.