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Originally Posted by phetaroi
Twice recently I watched relatively new versions of b&w films that have been colorized. A while back "Holiday Inn", and last night "It's A Wonderful Life".
Unlike early attempts, the colorization of these films was fantastic. I've watched "It's A Wonderful Life" quite a few times, but never enjoyed it as much as I did in its colorized version.
I'm all for more of it if it can be of this quality.
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The early colorization attempts had a faulty premise. I learned that while working with photoshop and doing some colorizing of still photos on my own about fifteen years ago.
Take a look at the mountain in the background of the attached photo. In early colorization, a tint or wash of color was used over areas, and the brightness or darkness relied on the underlying black and white image. The look was artificial, and muddy. When I colorized the mountain, I found that the bluish grey of that technique was not realistic, so changed that part of the image completely out of black and white, and it only has the color I chose making it up. Likewise, the sky and the water have NO grey component at all.
There are, as previously discussed, some films that use the black and white image to great effect, and the film can suffer by colorizing. TBH though, those are a minority of films out of the thousands that were made.
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