Version I watched was 60 minutes and was in colour. So I had to check if I was watching a different film all together but the cast matches up to this Letterboxd listing. So I guess this is it. (Watched this on Amazon).
I looked into it and it’s a recolourised version of a hour long recut from 1941 according to Wikipedia “prepared by Kent Eastin” and recolourised in 2007 by Legend Films.
Forgive me since I am reviewing that version instead of the movie itself.
I do hate recolourising older movies. Doesn’t work. The atmosphere is gone. The colour palette is abhorrent. The skin tones look all wrong. I’d hardly call it a recolourisation, It’s just variations on brown, orange and yellow.
The sound quality was pretty bad. Desperate need of a clean up. Dialogue is very muddled at times. Thankfully the subtitles matched up so I could follow along fine.
As for the editing, woah a lot of things just seem to go by in a rush. It takes 20 minutes for ghosts to start showing up and they barely get any ghost of christmas past. It’s like they just skim the plot points. Scrooge Heartbreak, Tiny Tim, Scrooge’s nephew’s party. Bish bash bosh. No time to care except surface level attachment. More time is spent on the people robbing Scrooge’s grave.
I will admit there’s some lovely visuals. Especially the model work of London and optical stuff with Marley’s Ghost and The GOCP. Impressive for 1935. I love how Scrooge is seen through a shadow in the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come scenes. That’s beautiful.
Version I watched was 60 minutes and was in colour. So I had to check if I was watching a different film all together but the cast matches up to this Letterboxd listing. So I guess this is it. (Watched this on Amazon).
I looked into it and it’s a recolourised version of a hour long recut from 1941 according to Wikipedia “prepared by Kent Eastin” and recolourised in 2007 by Legend Films.
Forgive me since I am reviewing that version instead of the movie itself.
I do hate recolourising older movies. Doesn’t work. The atmosphere is gone. The colour palette is abhorrent. The skin tones look all wrong. I’d hardly call it a recolourisation, It’s just variations on brown, orange and yellow.
The sound quality was pretty bad. Desperate need of a clean up. Dialogue is very muddled at times. Thankfully the subtitles matched up so I could follow along fine.
As for the editing, woah a lot of things just seem to go by in a rush. It takes 20 minutes for ghosts to start showing up and they barely get any ghost of christmas past. It’s like they just skim the plot points. Scrooge Heartbreak, Tiny Tim, Scrooge’s nephew’s party. Bish bash bosh. No time to care except surface level attachment. More time is spent on the people robbing Scrooge’s grave.
I will admit there’s some lovely visuals. Especially the model work of London and optical stuff with Marley’s Ghost and The GOCP. Impressive for 1935. I love how Scrooge is seen through a shadow in the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come scenes. That’s beautiful.
