 The film was shot entirely in color and was intended to be released  that way. It was decided during editing, however, that the movement  between past and present could be made clearer by printing the  scenes in 1947 in black and white. Branagh comments on the DVD that  the costume and set designers were disappointed by this, because  they would have used different colors for those scenes, which would  photograph better in black and white, had they known this.