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Post #1000283

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Spaced Ranger
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Info & Discussion: Fullscreen Laserdisc / DVD Preservations
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12-Oct-2016, 9:31 PM

Forbidden Planet is another one. It’s 1st/early full screen release (Beta, VHS, LD) apparently has bolder colors, which faded away on the particular stock used for filming. Later releases colorfulness, even though in the original widescreen, just kept getting weaker and weaker.

Check out this other thread Forbidden Planet 16mm Scope print for sale on eBay

and some original lobby cards at Four Color Comics website:

Morbius’s home never popped with color like that since then!