Mr. Harris is wrong. I like Bob Harris. But he's wrong. An American In Paris is too brown. Gigi is too brown. Most of Warners' transfers are too brown. The one thing he's right about is that the transfer was made from the Tech black-and-white separation masters and you can't just lose the color blue - it has to be a deliberate choice - and it is a deliberate choice being made by people who don't know what these films looked like. He admits that Gigi isn't right but excuses it saying the neg is faded and that to get skin tones that look proper you have to add more yellow, which plays havoc with the other colors. Exactly. And with today's technology you can overcome any fading when working in the digital domain with a colorist who knows what they're doing. And all one has to do is look at the previous DVD of Gigi to know that. No, it's not as sharp, but the color, while not perfect, is much better. Then all one need do is look at the travesty of a transfer of The Searchers, with its green skies. There was a brief moment on a forum where Mr. Harris completely agreed with me on that issue and it's there for all to see. Then he waffled. Then he changed his tune. And the Warners' line gets towed.
