Guys, we have a new winner for The Sword in the Stone!
The Amazon WEB-DL is 1080p, has no logo, and fewer artifacts than the best HDTVrips around; better bitrate too.
And, of course… no terrible DNR like the BD.
WEB-DL: https://i.imgbox.com/98T7RJPa.png
HDTV: https://i.imgbox.com/VtAhDHRS.pngWEB-DL: https://i.imgbox.com/dCUK2Hza.png
HDTV: https://i.imgbox.com/1MDlTE0O.png
Excellent!
I don’t know how the color looks on 35mm, but I have my suspicions about both of these transfers. To my eyes there is a lot of hue shifting, resulting in unnatural colors. I looked at some lobby cards to get an idea of what this could have looked like, and came up with a single correction for both images:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/213210/picture:0
This one is rather red, but at least the chair and the bone aren’t green.