Color version

I think most colorized films look sickly... Especially those attempts done in the 1980s. I usually prefer to watch B&W films, the way that they were originally meant to be seen... In B&W of course.

While some recent attempts don't look too bad, like "It's A Wonderful Life" which was done a few years ago and released on DVD, along with the Black & White Version... (At least I have Both)

These films were specifically shot with lighting and clothing, ETC. to produce high contrast, because subtle shades of the same color, don't show up in B&W. When you try to color it, you get nothing but a messy pallet of horrible colors that don't look pleasing at all.

You might be surprised to learn that during the first two seasons of "The Adventures Of Superman" with George Reeves, his suit was NOT Blue, Red, & Yellow. But it was shades of grey. That is what they filmed! If they were to colorize the shows you have THREE real problems.

1.) If properly colored... Superman would be wearing a Grey Suit. Fans would not want this.

2.) If you colored the suit Blue, Red, & Yellow, other colors in the frames could get mis-colored to something horrible like Pea-Green, instead of Sky Blue. While Superman would look great, the rest of Metropolis would look like something someone threw up.

3.) Even if you could get everything else colored correctly (as in #1), and then go back, and manually color Superman's suit, that would be quite costly. Depending on how good the colorization process is, it may or may not be worth the effort to spend all that time and money to do it...

But no matter what...

Ginger has gone on record stating that she generally preferred B&W films. I am not sure if she was referring to those early horrible color attempts I mentioned or just watching older movies in general... I don't know But...

In the case of this movie, HER MOVIE, I'm sure she definitely meant she prefered it to be in B&W...

And, as a fan of hers, that is how I prefer to watch it, the way she did! The way it was filmed.