Hmm...
According to the SPHE press release (once, again), "West Wing Studios, who referenced Columbia Pictures archives’ production items (props, cloth swatches, etc.), artists were able to achieve the highest level of historical accuracy in the images." (12-11-2006, SPHE)
This is a rather foolish statement, since, I think, we can all rest assured that no "Stoogie" prop items were retained by Columbia Studios from all those years ago. In my thirty-plus years I've never heard of an actual prop turning up from one of those short films. Also, in the West Wing featurette on the first Colourized Disaster Disc, we are told that the "research" consisted largely of looking at pictures on Ebay! I would be extremely ashamed to be the person who greenlighted this disgraceful sham, and to be the one responsible for paying people to browse Ebay under the guise of doing research.
Now, the best part is, in that same featurette we are told that the West Wing folks create a "colour recipe" and make their own choices at what the colours should be. This throws any shred of credibility for the whole project right out the window! Just how in the Flyin' Hell can that kind of guesswork reveal any historical accuracy?
Bottom line? West Wing Studios is a joke, and Sony's colourisation scheme is a completely worthless crock that has made a few people very rich. The Stooges are not funnier in colour! Not all people's gums and teeth are grey. Larry Fine's skin colour was not the same as his hair and, though it was a popular colour back in the day, all fucking interior walls were not green!
Sony has such a great product with so much potential right at their greedy, grubby, snotty, hoity-toity, stick-em-with-a-high-price-tag-give-'em-nothing, lack of special features, low quality-control, cut out bits for no reason, don't bug us with that inferior product business, we don't listen to fans, down with the black and white fingertips... and they keep getting it exactly wrong every, single time.
Much like Emil Sitka in "The Tooth Will Out", let's have a collective, and exhasperated, "Whooooooo!"
-thump the s h o e s
edit- Oh, and, in case someone from Sony sees this, the film is called "Brideless Groom" not "Brideless Grooms". Details, man! Details!
