 In 2004 the movie was completely restored from the original three  Technicolor negatives. This time digital technology was used to  create results impossible to achieve with traditional methods. The  negatives were scanned in at 2K resolution and digitally combined to  remove all previous alignment problems and achieve perfect  registration despite different amounts of shrinkage in the masters.  The resulting digital master is of higher quality than any prints  available so far, including the original prints from 1939. The color  was timed to be identical to the surviving answer print of Selznick  himself which is the color reference for the film. It was believed  lost but turned up five weeks into the color timing of the digital  master which was subsequently stopped and started all over again  from scratch. This restored version looks fabulous, especially when  projected with a digital projector. An improved version, this time  working at 4K resolution is already approved and should be finished  in 2005.