Nitrate's stunning colors are nowhere more luscious than in this Technicolor archival print of The Red Shoes. Still considered by many to be the best ballet film ever made, it is famous also for its brilliantly evocative color photography, and art direction by the painter Hein Heckroth. Moira Shearer made her screen debut as the ballerina who must choose between her art and her private life; Anton Wolbrook plays her Svengali-like mentor. The denouement is the ballet "The Red Shoes," staged in its entirety, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a girl whose shoes cannot stop dancing. As David Thomson writes, "The artist's dedication is close to destructiveness: his vision is never more romantic than when it refuses to yield to real obstacles; he is most tender and wounded when he cannot share the sentiments of other people. For all its rainbow dazzle...The Red Shoes glorifies the pained but magnificent isolation of the artist."