 The intended concept of the film was that archival black and white  footage of each battle was to be tinted specific colors. The  soldiers who died in that battle continue to accompany the unit  silently with their uniforms now the color of the battle they died  in. However, when the final answer print was sent from the principal  lab in England to the labs in Los Angeles subcontracted out to make  the release prints, the LA labs assumed that the tinted footage was  a mistake, and graded it back to black and white without notifying  anyone until the whole batch was struck. As a result, according to  DP David Watkin (qv), it has "never been properly seen anywhere 