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Originally Posted by ManchestrMorgue
Unfortunately for this movie, when it was found after being supposedly lost for so many years, it wasn't as good as everyone thought (or seemed to recall). So the remaining copy wasn't as lovingly preserved as one would have liked.
The cheap preservation work resulted in a washed out print that didn't have the vibrancy that the original evidently had. So the copy we have today doesn't look anywhere near as impressive as it would have looked on original cinema release.
Being Warner Bros. second "two strip" Technicolor horror film (after Doctor X), one would assume that the use of colour would have been foremost in the producer's mind (as it was a novelty). So to significantly diminish such an important facet of this film's production must diminish its appeal somewhat.
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There seems to be a lot of debate as to when true color came to movies. Some trace it back as far as 1908. Seems nobody really does know what the first might be. Apparently, it really didn't catch on with audiences after Mystery, either, and didn't get popular til Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.