March of the Wooden Soldiers Streaming
Mardi, août 17th, 2010 |
March of the Wooden Soldiers Streaming.
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The Laurel and Hardy classic, March of the Wooden Soldiers (originally released as Babes in Toyland), was the fantastic result of combining two tremendous talents with a childlike, fantasy world and adult situations (Laurel and Hardy, Toyland and an evil landlord’s mortgage conspiracy, respectively). Such rich source material makes for a film of unsurpassed quality: featuring rich and imaginative environments, costumes, sights and sounds. Every fairytale has its day, from Little Bo Peep to the Three Little Pigs to Mother Goose, and even Santa. We all know that the winter months are a time to remember to greatest holiday classics from years past, and March of the Wooden Soldiers is unsurpassed in its genre.
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The holidays are associated with bright and festive colors–bright reds, greens, blues and golds–that set a warm and cheery mood, and the movies that we choose to enjoy during this season are no different. Fortunately, this edition of March of the Wooden Soldiers has been colorized, bringing newfound vibrancy to the events on screen and helping to integrate this classic tale with the traditional warmth of the holiday season. Rather than a visually dull grayscale that reminds one of the dour winter weather, toy soldiers shimmer in brilliant red onscreen, and our two comedian leads are further humanized by their newfound flesh tones and colorful Christmas garb.
As colorization efforts go, March of the Wooden Soldiers is a superlative effort, looking as though it was originally produced in the first generation of Technicolor, rather than decades earlier. The producers in charge of this re-mastering effort clearly thought that we would find an “aged color” appearance more acceptable than attempting to make it look completely modern, and this approach works very well. I’m sure you’ll agree if you see a preview.
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It’s worth noting that this disc also includes the black and white version of the movie, perhaps as a peace offering to those of you who might object to the alteration of a classic film. I would go so far, then, as to call this the definitive purchase of March of the Wooden Soldiers, not just because you’ll have a choice between color and black and white, but because the first step in colorizing any movie is to “clean up” the pre-existing black and white material as much as possible, and it certainly shows in comparison with other versions available.
In addition to both versions of the movie, this disc’s special features really push it over the top. As a media buff, the included classic trailers are a wonderful prelude to the main feature–I like to imagine that I’m getting the same experience as the audiences who first viewed Laurel and Hardy some seventy years ago. And, in keeping with this package’s holiday theme, the animated Rudolph the Reindeer movie is thoughtfully included, ensuring that you and your family get the most value out of a single disc.
For any family or fan of holiday cinema, this package is definitely a must-buy.
I very much prefer this film in color than in black and white, and I have watched both the Goodtimes colourized version and this Legend version. For me it comes down to this:
The Goodtimes has the best saturation, better overall colour, and better contrast without exposing the print too much to bleach out details. It is also a cleaner print. However, it is not exactly in focus (or seems to be a little in “double-focus”), and the beginning is the “March of the Wooden Soldiers” credits instead of the original “Babes in Toyland”. I found that I did get used to the odd focus, but it took a while.
The Legend version is very sharp and clear, has most of the original titles with their snippet of animation leading into “Babes in Toyland” (*). But, it is a washed-out print with highlights burned out, and overall has a greenish-cast, which is unpleasant. (Maybe you can adjust for this on your DVD monitor.) The menus have loud, stupid, disturbing music–a characteristic that I always hate and despise (pure silence is best).
(* The first original title is an approval certificate. Legend replaces this with a title-card that has their own name. No loss folks, really.)
The Legend black-and-white version does appear to be simply the colourized print with the colour turned off. It, too, is a bit washed out, and has a LOT of nicks and scratches that are not on other prints. The recent release of this movie by MGM proves that this film is still in pristine condition; it has superb, glowing sound as well. It also has all the original main titles COMPLETELY intact and restored. This Legend release cannot possibly be from the original negative, and it is NOT “spectacularly restored”. Once again, we have been lied to.
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