Bewitched - The Complete Seasons 1-5
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DVD: Region Code 99Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
DVD Reviews of Bewitched - The Complete Seasons 1-5
DVD Review: Superb Coloring! Excellent quality!
Summary: 5 Stars
The colorizing of seasons one and two are the best I have ever seen on any film or TV episode. If I had not known they were filmed in Black and white, I would not have been able to tell this was not natural color... and I am very particular about the tiniest of minute details. They even managed to color inside the mouth which is the one place most colorizing systems have trouble with. The quality is so excellent, it looks like someone painstakingly colored each individual frame. There is no bleeding or overlapping. The colors are natural and appear genuine. I don't see how anyone could complain. I was ecstatic with the colorizing and the quality. Someone went to a lot of trouble and expense and care to make sure these were colored with the highest degree of quality.
It doesn't make any sense to me that anyone would have complaint about the colorizing of the first two seasons. It is a thousand times better, not worse. They didn't film these episodes in black and white for artistic purposes. They were filmed in black and white for reasons of cost and availability of equipment. If they could have filmed the first 2 seasons in color, they would have, but networks did not want to pay that kind of money until the show was a hit in those early days of color TV. You can see how tight their budget was just by the lack of wardrobe they had to choose from.
Before I was an engineer, I was a TV camera operator in my teens. We would have done handstands to be able to have had color TV cameras back then, but they were too expensive except for the highest rated shows and the largest stations and studios. We didn't like black and white; we simply had no choice.
I had to suffer for 19 years with black and white TV back in those early years. I was so happy to finally watch all the reruns in color. If I never saw another black and white show, I would be delighted. But my aversion to black and white also made me wait decades before seeing some excellent old movies because they were not in color. Anyone who says color is not an improvement or who claims the black and white is an artistic statement would be impressed by Homer Simpson's junkyard sculptures.
I know a little about colorizing. I've spent thousands of hours digitally colorizing our family's photos, including those of our ancestors. Color brings them to life. They look so much nicer in color. It takes a great deal of effort and care to do natural colorizing of any black and white media.
The only tiny improvement on this colorizing would have been to tone down Endora's hair a bit and a little more contrast to Tate's hair but other than that it was perfect.
Believing this series is better in black and white makes as much sense as keeping the movie "Jezebel" in black and white. The main plot of Jezebel concerned the wearing of a Red gown to a formal ball. A Red gown in black and white just doesn't cut it for me. I've been waiting, but it is still in black and white.
You can't go wrong with the quality of these episodes. The DVD's are excellent. Each episode is in pristine quality. The soundtrack is excellent. Many of these early season Bewitched episodes were rarely seen in reruns because they were in black and white. So I'm seeing a lot of these for the first time. Now that they are in color, they will probably air the reruns networks had previously avoided.
My compliments to those responsible for this excellent colorizing. It is award winning quality in my book and I thank you for doing this. I was absolutely overjoyed.
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