Has it ever been shown or released on VHS or DVD in color? It would be so amazing if it has been. If anyone has a copy I'd love to buy it!!!
shareHow about they just make a cartoon out of it?
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It has been released in a colorized version, but it is EXTREMELY hard to find. I saw a colorized version of "Holiday Inn" that our local library had about four years ago (in 2003), but it disappeared from their collection about 6 months later. But such a version does exist, and it's beautiful!
shareI had the DVD version of Holiday Inn/Bells of St. Mary's and both were done in color. It was two DVDs in one case. It's turned up missing recently and I re-bought Holiday Inn ... but could only find it in B&W. It's out there. You just have to find it :)
shareI have been looking for this for several years, anyone have a source for this movie, Holiday Inn, in the colorized version.
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If anyone has this in color, I would be most interested in obtaining a copy.
shareFound this link to a colorized photo of the "Be Careful It's My Heart" outfits...
http://www.pleasedancewithme.com/AstaireMarjorieReynoldsHolInn42_HeartColor.jpg
Anybody found any others? I've had no luck outside of this...
I had to share the good news because I'm so happy and have been looking for it in color for forever--http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/product.asp?sku=D69113
Scroll down towards the bottom and it's available for preorder (special 3-disk edition).
This makes me SO happy.
Hurray!
I have this 3-disc collection. Even though I had the movie on VHS and on DVD, I just had to get this 3-disc set because it has the B&W movie on DVD, the color version on DVD, and the soundtrack CD. Having loved this movie since childhood, I couldn't resist this deal.
The color version is absolutely gorgeous. They really did a fine job on it, nothing like those horrible colorizations from Ted Turner's backyard garage. This one has reds that look like red, and the background scenery is fabulous, especially their first number with Virginia Dale. How they colored the stage and the background was superb. There's a special feature that explains the colorizing process - it's most interesting.
Although, I do admit, the black & white version DVD is the first one I grab when I'm ready to watch Holiday Inn - and not just at Christmastime.
If you can find this set, it's the one to have. Plus it has some interesting featurettes, including one with Fred's daughter, Ava Astaire.
We want to know what color Virginia Dale's sparkly dress is in the first dance number with Fred Astaire, early in the movie. I say it's red, others think it's green or bronze. Anyone really know?
shareIn the first scene she is wearing a BLACK dress with a silver sparkle design on the front. Too dark to be dark blue.
shareI got mine from Amazon. Here's the link..http://www.amazon.com/Holiday-Inn-Three-Disc-Collectors/dp/B001DXS4E2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1358880068&sr=8-3&keywords=holiday+inn
shareUniversal Studios released a 2008 three-disc collectors set.
It contains:
1. An excellent restored Black and White Version
2. A new Colorized version based on the restored version
3. A Music CD soundtrack
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I bought mine from Amazon I am absolutely thrilled with it. I hoped someday someone would colorize this gem as it just cried out for color. Legend Films did a good job colorizing it. Not flawless but very good. Those stars and stripe curtains behind Astaire’s “Firecracker” dance just needed to be red white and blue.
this is what i had thought would be a good idea for old films like yankee doodle dandy and the like. i love old films don't get me wrong, films from the early beginnings to now. though IMHO i would say it needs extras besides the soundtrack, yes i'm an extras fan as like most ppl are.
shareI'm sure that it would be amazing to see Holiday Inn in color. Amazing that some people's mindset is such that they cannot watch a B & W movie without imagining what it would be like in color. Holiday Inn was made in B & W, this is how the creators imagined it. Colorised films effectively color in B & W films and should be avoided by those who appreciate classic cinema. Colorising films is like defacing the Mona Lisa.
shareForgive me Lucas but I must disagree with you. Many of the old films were "imagined" in color however, post-depression and during the war, there wasn't a lot of money kicking around.....even in Hollywood, so budgets were often very tight and they had to resort to the cheaper method....Black and White.
There were others though, like Alfred Hitchcock, who worked so long with Black and White, that they created their sets and costumes to suit B/W and so the movie worked well and came across properly to the audience. I do have to agree with they others that have posted here though, that many movies....especially Musicals, cry out for color.
The MAIN thing is that you NEVER leave out CHOICE. That's what democracy is about.
You want B/W....fine. I want Color.....fine. We both have choice with Holiday Inn.
P/S....my 3 disk copy arrived yesterday and we watched it last night...it was awesome....well worth the money from Amazon.
I just ordered the 3 disc collector's edition from Amazon. Thanks for letting me know it exists! Having watched this movie hundreds of times, I am looking forward to actually seeing what the costumes look like in color. This will be a fun experience.
shareI am watching it now in color...I received the 3-disc set for Christmas last year....it looks great.
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AGREED; they did a wonderful job. I have watched this film with my family on every Christmas Eve since 1986 (I look forward to it tonight) and we all wondered what colors things were.
What was surprisng is how the color makes details just pop out, like the kitchen utencils in the New Year's Eve kitchen scene and the "You're Easy to Dance With" number. It's amamzing. I now see stuff I never noticed before.
What's good is the little featurette that discusses how the colorists arrived at their decisions. Be sure to watch it.
This film was wonderful in black and white - elegant and nostalgic at the same time - but it really does SING in color.
Merry Christmas!
p.s. The Alastair Sim "Scrooge" - it's pretty film noir and looks good in black and white. But there is also a good case to be made for it in color. I think this year I'll watch it in black and white. I like having the option!
I agree with lynx0139, well said. I really didn't want to see this film in color based on earlier film experimentations with the colorization process. I purchased the 3 disk set and was amazed at how well done the coloriztion process is. I still enjoy the b&w verzion but the color verzion does add a lot to the story. From the detailed set (much more depth now that they are not only in shades of gray, white & black) to the beautiful attire.
This film is well worth the move. How can you go wrong with both the color verzion and the b&w verzion? Simple...you can't.
I bought the 3-Disc colorized DVD at Costco back in '08 for about $10.00. I They did a very good of coloring it.
They also released It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street in color. IAWL wasn't bad, but I haven't seen Mo34thS.
Much better than the old colorizing they did. That was downright awful!
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I saw the various attempts at colorizing It's A Wonderful Life. The first was pretty sloppy, as evidenced by Ernie's hair suddenly changing to black-n-white as he's about to read Sam's telegram towards the end. The second had better color, but it colorized some things that should NOT have been colorized, such as the photos of George's father hanging on the wall. (The first was much better in that respect.) I believe the third version (going strictly by memory here....I'm *kind of* certain there were 3 colorizations) corrected some of these faults.
That sort of coloring error appeared at the beginning of Holiday Inn where Fred Astaire wipes the snow off the signboard in front of the nightclub. The photos on the board should have been left black-n-white in my opinion. Other than that, the film looks great. Maybe someday they'll improve the technology it to the point where you cannot tell whether it was shot in color or black-n-white in the first place.
By the way, years ago AMC (then called American Movie Classics) flat out refused to show colorized movies. Former presenter Bob Dorian (I believe) joked that he would also object to any attempt to "black and white-ize" any color movie, should that become a fad someday. (In those days the channel was much like Turner Classic Movies, or TCM, with a presenter giving interesting tidbits about featured movies before and after they were shown. The channel was also commercial-free, but eventually added a commercial break "intermission" mid-way through each film before becoming a full-time commercial channel. They also chucked the presenters, which was a real shame considering the information they gave and the location shooting they did in restored old-time movie palaces around the country.)