Filmtechnisch gerade unerklärlich für mich, aber ein Vergleich der Technicolor-Klassiker "The Adventures of Robin Hood" und dem ein Jahr später gedrehten "Gone with the wind" fällt auf den auf den Markt verfügbaren blu-ray-Disks zuungunsten von "Gone with the wind" aus. Letzterer ist farblich defizitärer, weicher und deutlich körniger.
Wie erklärt sich dies?
Es gab wohl mehrere Umkopierungen und Restaurierungen von "Gone with the wind", etwa von 1967, 1989 oder eben 2010. Deren Ergebnisse fast alle hinlänglich kennen dürften.
Es sei einmal auf die Fassung von 1989 rekurriert:
"Using as a guide a 1954 Technicolor print approved by the late Mr. Selznick, work began on rephotographing the negatives in early 1987 at YCM Laboratories in Burbank, Calif.
According to Mr. May, ''It had long been thought that the original negatives had shrunk at different rates; in fact the problem was not shrinkage but maladjustment of the prism in the Technicolor camera when it was photographed.''
The worst problem came during the Twelve Oaks smoking-room scene early in the film, where the men discuss the impending Civil War. ''Rhett has on a tie that's supposed to be a black-and-white check, but it appears as a yellow-cyan and magenta check,'' says Mr. May, cringing slightly at the thought.
In another scene, he says, ''Ashley [ Leslie Howard ] and Scarlett were silhouetted in front of a window, and he had three noses - different colors.''
Correcting the problems was ''largely trial and error,'' sighs Mr. May: ''Re-photographing the original at a slightly different relationship to the sprocket holes, hoping that it comes out the same as the other two strips. You're dealing with ten-thousandths of an inch."
