The Red Shoes (GBR 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger) is one of the most beautiful and well-known British Technicolor films. This gallery provides images from four different versions, a Finnish dye-transfer print, the images from the 2009 digital restoration by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt (before and after), and a dye-transfer print from the British Film Institute.
Contemporary Reception:
Anonymous (1949): Brief Reviews. The Red Shoes. In: Photoplay, 34,5, Apr., p. 6. View Quote
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Anonymous (1948): Film Reviews. The Red Shoes. In: Variety, 171,9, Aug., p. 11. View Quote
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Anonymous (1948): The Red Shoes with Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring and Moira Shearer. In: Harrison’s Reports, XXX,43, Oct., p. 170. View Quote
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Crowther, Bosley (1948): The Red Shoes, a British Film About the Ballet, Stars Moira Shearer at Bijou. In: The New York Times, 23 October 1948, p. 9. View Quote
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Crowther, Bosley (1948): The Red Shoes. Film About Ballet and Dancers a Delight. In: The New York Times, 31 October 1948, p. 1. View Quote
Production Reports:
Lightman, Herb (1949): The Red Shoes. The Ultimate in Choreo-Photography Done in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff, A.S.C. In: American Cinematographer, 30,3, Mar., pp. 82–83 and pp. 99–100, on pp. 82–83 View Quote, on p. 83 and on pp. 99–100. View Quote
Full text on the Media History Digital Library website. View Link
Selected Analyses:
Engelke, Henning; Hochscherf, Tobias (2014): Colour Magic at Pinewood. Hein Heckroth, The Archers and Avant-Garde Production Design in The Red Shoes (1948). In: Journal of Design History, 28,1, pp. 48–66, on p. 53 View Quote and on pp. 55–56. View Quote
Grob, Norbert (1991): Farbe im Auge, Ausdruck im Kopf. Hein Heckroths Farbdramaturgien für Powell & Pressburger. In: Katharina Spielhaupter (ed.): Hein Heckroth. Frankfurt/M.: Filmmuseum, pp. 57–78, on pp. 64–70. (in German) View Quote
Street, Sarah (2012): Colour Films in Britain. The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–55. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, on pp. 187–193. View Quote
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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After the digital restoration 2009 by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt. Credit: The Film Foundation. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Original dye transfer print. Credit: National Audiovisual Archive of Finland. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Before the restoration. Credit: By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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After the digital restoration 2009 by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt. Credit: The Film Foundation. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Original dye transfer print. Credit: National Audiovisual Archive of Finland. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Before the restoration. Credit: By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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After the digital restoration 2009 by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt. Credit: The Film Foundation. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Before the restoration. Credit: By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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After the digital restoration 2009 by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt. Credit: The Film Foundation. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Original dye transfer print. Credit: National Audiovisual Archive of Finland. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print, cropped. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Before the restoration. Credit: By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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After the digital restoration 2009 by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt. Credit: The Film Foundation. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Before the restoration. Credit: By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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After the digital restoration 2009 by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt. Credit: The Film Foundation. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Before the restoration. Credit: By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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After the digital restoration. Credit: By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Original dye transfer print. Credit: National Audiovisual Archive of Finland. By courtesy of ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
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Dye-transfer print. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: The Red Shoes (GB 1948, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).