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Originally Posted by GeorgeJetson
I would love to!
Unfortunately there aren't many old movie theatres left still in operation that run those great old films.
Many years back I used to work at a movie theatre that was 50+ years old and we ran the old movies and cartoons and it was great!...but it didn't bring in any money so they closed.
That place even had the original carbon arc projector and voice of the theatre speaker behind the screen!
So why did Technicolor stop making that film when it was so incredible?
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I work at a theatre, and I dont run old films there, either. Now, when I have a private party, and we run something from my collection...
Technicolor stopped doing its dye transfer process because it was expensive, and Eastmancolor had come a long way, if you can call it that, with its own color system. The studios were awfully cheap and were always looking for a cheap way out with color.
Just before Technicolor shut down and closed its dye transfer lines, Samuel Goldwyn, the movie producer, had new Technicolor negatives made of his color features dating back to the 1930's, and his color features shine today, with the exception of Guys And Dolls, and Porgy and Bess, which were done in Eastmancolor. When I worked in television, the new prints of Goldwyn titles we ran in 1976-77 looked better than anything we were getting from the other distributors.
The last major Technicolor dye transfer feature release was The Godfather II.
Look at some of the stuff that Turner Classic Movies plays. The Technicolor features tend to be just as vivid today as they were when new, provided that the original and printing negatives have been cared for properly, which many have.