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Post by teleadm on Mar 7, 2017 19:26:00 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this colorization trend actually paved the way to restoring old colour movies, to their original colour scales as directors once intended, as so many movies was showned in faded colours and scratchings??
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Post by naterdawg on Mar 7, 2017 20:30:17 GMT
Computer colorizing is becoming an art. Check out this simply amazing work done on The Munsters!
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Post by Mr_K_Pratt on Mar 7, 2017 20:39:26 GMT
If they were originally filmed in black & White, I'd prefer to see them in black & white.
This just doesn't look right, you'd think it was filmed in the fifties...
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 8, 2017 6:43:17 GMT
As others have said, it has improved. The colourized version of the TV series "Bewitched" seemed fine to me.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 8, 2017 16:14:57 GMT
I don't recall the specific years of the trend, but I do remember there being a brief period in the late 80s/early 90s where old black-and-white films were "colorized". That is, colors were superimposed on the films, which actually produced a cheap-looking end result. The first and only time I ever saw the movie Suspicion, it was a colorized version...and it looked pretty bad.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 8, 2017 16:17:20 GMT
And that was followed by the reverse trend -- rendering paintings in black-and-white. The Mona Lisa was admittedly a poor start, but the technique has improved. The Sistine Chapel ceiling looks great in B&W.
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Post by snsurone on Mar 8, 2017 16:34:31 GMT
And that was followed by the reverse trend -- rendering paintings in black-and-white. The Mona Lisa was admittedly a poor start, but the technique has improved. The Sistine Chapel ceiling looks great in B&W. That's because the color of the Sistine Chapel has faded over time. In fact, it really wasn't until the Baroque Period that color became really vivid, especially in the works of Boucher and Fragonard.
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Post by london777 on Mar 8, 2017 16:39:44 GMT
And that was followed by the reverse trend -- rendering paintings in black-and-white. The Mona Lisa was admittedly a poor start, but the technique has improved. The Sistine Chapel ceiling looks great in B&W. That's because the color of the Sistine Chapel has faded over time. In fact, it really wasn't until the Baroque Period that color became really vivid, especially in the works of Boucher and Fragonard. Boucher and Fragonard are very typical Rococo painters, not Baroque.
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 8, 2017 20:49:23 GMT
I'm not a fan even with the improvements in the technology. The depth of B&W really sets the mood for most films of the era. I really enjoy the later B&W films filmed in Cinemascope. The Longest Day comes to mind.
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Post by BooRadley on Mar 9, 2017 9:21:58 GMT
There are some instances where not only do I not mind the colourized version, but it actually adds a little charm. Probably not the real classics, but oddly, some movies,...yeah, it adds quaint charm. I'm curious. Can you give some examples? Hi Spidey ! I was one of those naysayers that was against colorization back when Ted Turner was tinkering with it. I certainly didn't like the too soft pastel colors nor the warped sense of lighting that it seemed to create. Flash forward many years and I actually became a big supporter of colorized films, after seeing the spectacular offerings from the "Legend Films" company. Firstly, the most important thing is that Legend Films always offers two discs in their DVDs, which are a restored version of the original black and white film, and of course their colorized version. Their restorations have been very impressive and the B/W looks fantastic. Now, about the colored version, every one that I have watched has been superb.... so good in fact that if I didn't know it was originally in B/W I wouldn't have ever guessed. I believe the first one that really impressed me was "It's a Wonderful Life." I would go as far as to say it was absolutely beautiful in color, and now every Christmas my family and I prefer to watch the colorized version. I would also like to point out that the children in my extended family will much quicker watch a color classic rather than that "old black and white movie." I know that's giving in, but hey, at least they're being exposed to classics that they wouldn't normally watch at all. Some more colorized versions that have really impressed me are, Night of the Living Dead, Babes in Toyland, Holiday Inn, Africa Screams, My Man Godfrey, Carnival of Souls, and a few more that I'm forgetting at the moment. I'm not joking when I say that the colorization of these films are stunning. I know the die-hard fans of the originals would never agree with me, and that's perfectly fine. There are some films that would never work after being colored and I will always prefer to watch them in B/W, but the ones mentioned above are, to me, actually improved in color, and Legend Films truly did an outstanding job on them. Lest we not forget that some films were only released in B/W because the studio couldn't afford the color film, so if Legend Films can offer us a colorized version that probably captures what it would have looked like if originally filmed in color, then I'm all for it. Cheers !
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Post by CybeRider on Mar 9, 2017 16:39:38 GMT
I remember also there was a plastic filter with a few color grades (blue on top, yellowish in the middle, green below) you could buy cheap and apply over the bw tv screen so it would look like a color tv, before color tvs existed. I could have been the guy to invent the colorized glasses to watch bw movies, following that example, but fortunately to the world someone worked harder and found better solutions in time.
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Post by bd74 on Mar 9, 2017 18:47:32 GMT
Some more colorized versions that have really impressed me are, Night of the Living Dead, Babes in Toyland, Holiday Inn, Africa Screams, My Man Godfrey, Carnival of Souls, and a few more that I'm forgetting at the moment. Good to know. I have never been able to sit through the entirety of Night of the Living Dead, as it's just a bit boring for me. Maybe a colorized version may help?
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Post by Isapop on Mar 10, 2017 19:00:28 GMT
I remember Burt Lancaster appearing as a guest on "The Larry King Show" on CNN to decry the trend.
I also remember a line from "Gremlins 2" (1990). A voice on a public address system announces: "Tonight on Film Classics, Casablanca, now in color, AND with a happier ending!"
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 11, 2017 14:59:17 GMT
And that was followed by the reverse trend -- rendering paintings in black-and-white. The Mona Lisa was admittedly a poor start, but the technique has improved. The Sistine Chapel ceiling looks great in B&W. You may have meant this as a satire (or not) but, after "Schindler's List" (1993) the door was opened to other films in black and white, the Coen's "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001) and Josh Wedon's "Much Ado About Nothing" (2014) being just two examples. Further - and this really happened - a black & white print of "Mad Max: Fury Road" had a short run this winter at the local independent movie theater.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 15:03:07 GMT
The movies were still watchable to me but I preferred the originals.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2017 15:06:18 GMT
There's a funny scene in Christopher Guest's film industry satire 'The Big Picture' (1989) in which a television set in a bar is adjusted, switching 'It's A Wonderful Life' (1946) from black & white to colour.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 12, 2017 0:07:39 GMT
I enjoyed most of the colorized films.
I liked the original King Kong colorized, but the process was not fully refined.
I have Tyrone's 'The Mark of Zorro' colorized, and it's great.
Didn't like 'Dead End' colorized. It threw the movie off.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 12, 2017 1:35:20 GMT
Yep, gotta -- it was satire. Hope that clarifies.
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Post by moonlight91 on Mar 12, 2017 3:44:53 GMT
Way before my time but I did grow up with the Shirley Temple films in color and to be honest, they look rather nice where I see Heidi in B&W and I get confused. Maybe they work well for those movies because the colors blend with the fantasy sequences in contrast to Suspicion with that vomit inducing color. Was it taken down from YouTube? I was looking for it earlier this afternoon and poof.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 22:17:53 GMT
As others have said it was the mid 80's. I like B&W it creates an other worldly feel and builds the ambiance for me, adds character and mood. Colour can't always do that and you know you are watching someone's interpretation when they do it. Not to mention they do it to try and appeal to a bigger audience but that audience won't like it anyway as the film is just too old for their tastes. You can add colour but the way the speak, the production everything else about it is still old and a lot of people won't get into it for those reasons.
Just like if you took the colour away from a modern film, it wouldn't make it more appealing to me.
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