Post by phantomparticle on Aug 15, 2021 23:07:27 GMT
2 hours ago jeffersoncody said:
I have only ever seen one colorized version a film; the 1935 SHE (the colorization was supervised by Ray Harryhausen, and a friend persuaded me). I was not impressed, and I have no desire to see any other colorized versions of films.
I have only ever seen one colorized version a film; the 1935 SHE (the colorization was supervised by Ray Harryhausen, and a friend persuaded me). I was not impressed, and I have no desire to see any other colorized versions of films.
Harryhausen also supervised the colorization of 20 Million Miles to Earth on the 50th Anniversary Edition DVD. It comes with a toggle switch that allows you to alternate from b/w to color and back at any point without disturbing the movie.
I cut it some slack, as Harryhausen's film, but in the main I don't applaud colorization. My main concern, in the beginning, was the fear that after the process was completed, the original would be locked away to decompose in the vault. That now seems unlikely considering the explosion of the home DVD market that guarantees no movie is going to entirely disappear down the memory hole. And that doesn't even cover the Gold Mine of Classic films, YouTube.
I'm sure Yankee Doodle Dandy would have looked magnificent in color, but since it wasn't designed that way, I'm happy with monochrome.