SUPERMAN III - GENERAL/DVD

Unfortunately, Warner Bros. did not transfer the film correctly, as result, wires can be seen in certain sequences including the chemical factory rescue. These flaws were not visible on previous Laserdisc, VHS and the original theatrical run.

From May 2001; written by Ahem:

WB have done a BAD job remastering S3- In fact, they HAVE tampered with it ala Lucas Special edition Star Wars- they have 'corrected' skies which were intentionally white washed to hide the wires- this ISN'T how the film looked in 1983- it's disgusting and physically DESTROYS the inventive skill of colour processing to hide wires- sure the process looses picture resolution because of its photo-chemical execution, but they are SUPPOSED to be white skies, NOT perfect skies - the reason the timing is off is to HIDE the wires, a technique used by the Supes crew long before digital wire removal(see the wire removal article on the special features section of this site) 

Somebody posted a link the other day that showed Supes at the chemical plant with visible wires- the shot had a BLUE SKY with cloud detail- THIS IS HORRENDOUS- the sky SHOULD be WHITE as it clearly appears on the 35mm prints- IT IS *SUPPOSED* to be a flawed image, it is a PHOTOCHEMICAL trick shot that DEPENDS on the ugly altering of the image. Okay, if the DVD remastering people were ordered to maintain a more grainless picture then they should have erased the wires digitally afterwards, because the bottom line is these wires have NEVER been seen before.

Warner Bros CLEARLY didn't give a dam. notably, STMs similar wire removal shots using color processing were left UNTOUCHED for it's far superior DVD, as they had proper color timing notes. If they 'corrected' a sky to get a better image quality then wires would also be erased to appear as the film looked in 1978.

I am going to write to Roy Field to make him aware of this typical, WB authored stupidity.Hopefully, corrections can be made, but as it stands, the film has visually been made a laughing stock due to PISS POOR knowledge of vintage special effects techniques.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE GUYS- Do not judge the SFX of S3 by this ANACHRONISTIC DVD. It IS NOT representative of the 1983 film, it HAS been digitally distorted.