MAX FLEISCHER'S SUPERMAN (1941-1943) Warner Bros 2023 Blu-ray Screenshots
All 17 episodes of Max Fleischer's Superman arrives on Blu-ray in 1080p HD sourced from a new "Warner Bros. Discovery’s advanced remastering process began with a 4K, 16-bit scan of Fleischer’s original 35mm successive exposure negative. Staying true to the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.37-to-1, the highest quality raw image was then scanned and then entered into the recombine process – utilizing special proprietary software to merge the successive exposure Technicolor negatives into a single RGB color image". Well, that restoration summary reads great, and it looks... decent, but it certainly doesn't live up to the high expectations I think most of us were expecting. The good news first, they've cleaned-up the nicks, scratches and instabilities that plagued previous SD versions of the famous toons: the colors are solid and are well-saturated, having never looked so stable, and the black levels are quite nice. The bad news, it's been DNR'd pretty dang thoroughly, the film grain is nearly non-existent and the image loses most of it's inherent animation textures and subtle shading variations, which is a terrible shame. This should have been an outstanding presentation given the new 4K scan from original elements, but instead it's only so-so mediocre, and this series deserves so much more than just better than the DVD. See the over 100 screenshots at the bottom of the review, plus a couple of comparison shots.
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