This color restoration of Jacques Tati's Jour de fête reveals that Tati conceived his story as much in terms of color as in comic timing. He stars as François, an idiosyncratic rural postman on a bicycle who is unduly influenced by a newsreel depicting the super-efficient U.S. mail service. The film was shot in 1947 on still experimental and now extinct Thomsoncolor film stock-with a backup camera shooting in black and white-but, until now, technicians could not figure out how to strike color prints. Glorious though it was, Jour de fête emerges as closer to Tati's original conception and with its inventive use of sound now digitally enhanced. With short: Cheerleaders in Space (David Fourier, France 1996, 6 mins).