Amazon categorizing the colorized version of It's A Wonderful Life as if it's the true version of the film is a grave disrespect to Frank Capra

If you happen to search It's a Wonderful Life on Amazon video the first 2 results are:

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life (Black & White Version)

Quick history of this movie's colorization - Frank Capra actually wanted to colorize the film himself but the project was canceled when the movie was found to be public domain.

Since then the movie has been colorized 3 times and Frank Capra became staunchly opposed because he was not allowed to oversee how his work was colorized (and I'm gonna guess he didn't make a dime off it either).

So to me it is wrong to list the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life as if it's the "main" edition of the film. The film's black and white cinematography is gorgeous in its own right and the end nightmare sequence is some of Capra's most striking images.

This isn't a rant against anyone who enjoys the colorized version, people like what they like, but it is an alternate version and should be listed as such.

TL;DR - It's a Wonderful Life in black and white should be the first search result and not listed as an alternate version.

Submitted December 21, 2020 at 03:06AM by cabose7 https://ift.tt/3auqaa3