Info Wanted: Colorized Classics - is anyone preserving them? — Page 2

I'm highly interested in the Errol Flynn titles. Those would make great second discs as accompaniment to the titles already released onto DVD.

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Has anyone got a colourised version of the Garbo classic "Camille" ?

I have a copy but it is not good quality so if anyone has a good quality copy and is prepared to make a copy or send the DVD files by Pando I would be very grateful to hear from them.

@DUNCAN41: Searched rutracker and they have it, I'll send you a couple links over pm.

skyjedi2005 said:

There has been a recent revival in the Colorization Of films especially undertaken by Ray Harryhausen for the films he worked on.

Bravo, Ray Harryhausen! And about time to throw the torches & pitch-forks of anti-colorization-P.C. (political communism) back onto the trash-heap of the dark ages, where it belongs.

Really late for this party, but glad to see there's still some punch in the bowl.  :)

To answer a now very old question -- yes, you can inject a lower quality colorized source's color information into a higher quality B&W source ... easily and with excellent results! In this Walt Disney's Zorro proof of concept, I combined a YouTube colorized posting (320x240) with a cable-TV B&W capture (720x480) in a paint program using it's split channel & combine channel (HSL) functions:

Naturally, the YouTube was small, smeared, and blocky, which required fix-ups: JPEG Artifacts Removal (maximum); increasing the weak saturation; resizing and repositioning to match the B&W image. From this, the Hue and Saturation were HSL separated for use in the final recombination.

The broadcast was better, of course, but still needed improvement: Edge-Preserving Smooth for the broadcast "noise"; sharpening the slight picture softness; rebalancing the picture's brightness spectrum (from 20-240 to 0-255). From this, the Lightness was HSL separated for use in the final recombination.

Pretty cool, I was hoping we could do something like this with an extra on our NOTLD 1968 version, I was hoping we could take the colorized version(DVD) and make the BD version color, this way we would have 1080p versions of both, but we couldn't.

Hi Duncan

I have Camille plus 300 more colorized movise

Here is my list

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) William Hopper & Joan Taylor 

36 Hours colorized (1965) James Garner, Rod Taylor & Eva Marie Saint

42^nd Street colorized (1933) Warner Baxter, George Brent & Ruby Keeler

Above and Beyond colorized (1952) Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker

Absent-Minded Professor, The colorized (1961) Fred MacMurray

Across the Pacific colorized (1942) Humphrey Bogart & Mary Astor

Action in the North Atlantic colorized (1943) Humphrey Bogart & Raymond Massey

Adam’s Rib colorized (1949) Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn

Advise and Consent colorized (1962) Henry Fonda & Charles Laughton

Africa Screams colorized (1949) Abbott & Costello

After The Thin Man colorized (1936) William Powell & Myrna Loy

Air Force colorized (1943) John Garfield & Gig Young

All About Eve colorized (1950) Bette Davis, Anne Baxter & George Sanders (Portuguese subtitles embedded)

Allegheny Uprising colorized (1939) John Wayne & Claire Trevor

Ambush colorized (1950) Robert Taylor & Arlene Dahl

Americanization of Emily, The colorized (1964) James Garner, Julie Andrews & Melvyn Douglas

An Innocent Man AKA Sagebrush Trail colorized (1933) John Wayne

Angel and the Badman colorized (1947) John Wayne & Gail Russell

Angels with Dirty Faces colorized (1938) James Cagney, Pat O’Brien & Humphrey Bogart

Angry Hills, The colorized (1959) Robert Mitchum & Stanley Baker

Annie Oakley colorized (1935) Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster & Melvyn Douglas

Arch of Triumph colorized (1948) Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer & Charles Laughton

Arsenic and Old Lace colorized (1944) Cary Grant & Raymond Massey

Asphalt Jungle, The (colorized 1950) Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe & Louis Calhern

Babes in Arms colorized 1939) Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland

Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The colorized (1947) Cary Grant, Myrna Loy & Shirley Temple

Bachelor Mother colorized (1939) Ginger Rogers & David Niven

Back to Bataan colorized (1945) John Wayne & Anthony Quinn

Bad and the Beautiful, The colorized (1952) Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner & Walter Pidgeon

Badman’s Territory colorized (1946) Randolph Scott

Bataan colorized (1943) Robert Taylor

Battle Circus colorized (1953) Humphrey Bogart & June Allyson

Battleground colorized (1949) Van Johnson & John Hodiak

Bells of St. Mary’s,The colorized (1945) Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman

Ben-Hur colour & tinted (1925) Ramon Novarro & Francis X Bushman

Beyond Christmas colorized (1940) AKA Beyond Tomorrow   Harry Carey & C. Aubrey Smith

Beyond Tomorrow colorized (1940) AKA Beyond Christmas   Harry Carey & C. Aubrey Smith

Big Sky, The colorized (1952) Kirk Douglas

Big Sleep, The colorized (1946) Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall

Big Steal, The colorized (1949) Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer & William Bendix

Bishop’s Wife, The colorized (1947) Cary Grant, Lorreta Young & David Niven

Black Beauty colorized (1946) Mona Freeman & Richard Denning

Black Dragons colorized (1942) Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay & Clayton Moore

Black Hand colorized (1950) Gene Kelly & J. Carroll Naish

Black Magic colorized (1949) Orson Welles & Akim Tamiroff

Blackboard Jungle colorized (1955) Glenn Ford & Anne Francis

Blood on the Moon colorized (1948) Robert Mitchum & Barbara Bel Geddes

Blood on the Sun colorized (1945) James Cagney & Sylvia Sidney

Blue Steel AKA Stolen Goods colorized (1934) John Wayne

Body Snatcher, The colorized (1945) Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi

Bombardier colorized (1943) Randolph Scott & Pat O’Brien

Boom Town colorized (1940) Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert & Hedy Lamarr

Bordertown colorized (1935) Bette Davis & Paul Muni

Boy’s Town colorized (1938) Spencer Tracy & Mickey Rooney

Brewster’s Millions colorized (1945) Dennis O’Keefe, Helen Walker & June Havoc

Bride Came C.O.D., The colorized (1941) James Cagney & Bette Davis

Bride of the Monster colorized (1955) Bela Lugosi & Tor Johnson

Bridge to the Sun (1961) colorized Carroll Baker & James Shigeta

Bright Eyes colorized (1934) Shirley Temple

Bring Up Baby) colorized (1938Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & Charles Ruggles

Camille colorized (1936) Greta Garbo & Robert Taylor

Canterville Ghost, The colorized (1944) Charles Laughton & Robert Young

Captain Blood colorized (1935) Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland (Special 119 minute version)

Captain January colorized (1936) Shirley Temple

Captains Courageous colorized (1937) Spencer Tracy & Freddie Batholomew

Carbine Williams colorized (1952) James Stewart & Wendell Corey

Carnival of Souls colorized (1962) Candace Hilligoss & Frances Feist

Casablanca colorized (1942) Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman

Catered Affair, The colorized (1956) Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds & Rod Taylor

Chain Lightning colorized (1950) Humphrey Bogart & Eleanor Parker

Champion colorized (1949) Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell & Arthur Kennedy

Charge of the Light Brigade, The colorized (1936) Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland

China Seas colorized (1935) Clark Gable & Jean Harlow

Christmas Carol, A colorized (1938) Reginald Owen & Gene Lockhart

Christmas Carol, A colorized (1951) AKA Scrooge, Alastair Sim

Christmas in Connecticut colorized (1945) Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan & Sydney Greenstreet

Christmas Wish, A colorized (1950) AKA The Great Rupert, Jimmy Durante & Terry Moore

Citadel, The colorized (1938) Robert Donat, Rex Harrison & Rosalind Russell

Clash by Night colorized (1952) Robert Ryan, Barbara Stanwyck & Marilyn Monroe

Clock, The colorized (1945) Judy Garland & Robert Walker

Cold Vengeance AKA The Dawn Rider colorized (1935) John Wayne 

Colorado Territory colorized (1949) Joel McCrae & Virginia Mayo

Command Decision colorized (1948) Clark Gable, Van Johnson & Walter Pidgeon

Copacabana colorized (1947) Groucho Marx & Carmen Miranda

Cornered colorized (1945) Dick Powell & Walter Slezak

Corsican Brothers, The colorized (1941) Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Count of Monte Cristo, The colorized (1934) Robert Donat

Crimson Ghost, The colorized (1946) Classic Saturday Afternoon Serial (All 12 episodes) Charles Quigley

Crisis colorized (1950) Cary Grant & Jose Ferrer

Crossfire colorized (1947) Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan & Robert Young

Cry of the Hunted colorized (1953) Barry Sullivan & Vittorio Gassman

Cry Terror colorized (1958) James Mason, Inger Stevens & Rod Steiger

Curse of the Cat People, The colorized (1944) Simone Simon & Kent Smith

Cyrano De Bergerac colorized (1950) Jose Ferrer & Mala Powers

D.O.A. colorized (1950) Edmond O’Brien & Luther Adler

Dakota colorized (1945) John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Ward Bond & Walter Brennan

Dark Command colorized (1940) John Wayne & Claire Trevor

Dark Passage colorized (1947) Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall

Dark Victory colorized (1939) Bette Davis, George Brent & Humphrey Bogart

David Copperfield colorized (1935) W C Fields & Freddie Batholomew

Dawn Rider, The AKA Cold Vengeance colorized (1935) John Wayne

Desperate Journey colorized (1942) Errol Flynn & Ronald Reagan

Destination Tokyo colorized (1943) Cary Grant & John Garfield

Devil Bat, The colorized (1940) Bela Lugosi

Devil’s Doorway colorized (1950) Robert Taylor

Devil-Doll, The colorized (1936) Lionel Barrymore & Maureen O’Sullivan

Dinner at Eight colorized (1933) John & Lionel Barrymore & Jean Harlow

Double Life, A colorized (1947) Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters & Edmond O’Brien

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde colorized (1941) Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman & Lana Turner

Dream Wife colorized (1953) Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr

Earth Vs the Flying Saucers colorized (1956) Hugh Marlowe & Joan Taylor

East Side, West Side colorized (1949) Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin & Ava Gardner

Edge of Darkness colorized (1943) Errol Flynn & Ann Sheridan

Edge of the City colorized (1957) Sidney Poitier & John Cassavetes

Edison, The Man colorized (1940) Spencer Tracy & Charles Coburn

Enchanted Cottage, The colorized (1945) Robert Young & Dorothy McGuire

Eternally Yours colorized (1939) David Niven, Loretta Young & C. Aubrey Smith

Every Girl Should Be Married colorized (1948) Cary Grant, Franchot Tone & Diana Lynn

Experiment Perilous colorized (1944) George Brent, Paul Lukas & Hedy Lamarr

Fanfan La Tulipe colorized (1952) Gina Lollobridgida & Gerard Philipe (In French with English Subtitles)

Fastest Gun Alive, The colorized (1956) Glenn Ford & Jeanne Crain

Father of the Bride colorized (1950) Spencer Tracy & Elizabeth Taylor

Father’s Little Dividend colorized (1951) Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett & Elizabeth Taylor

Fighting 69^th, The  colorized (1940) James Cagney, Pat O’Brien & George Brent

Fighting Kentuckian, The colorized (1949) John Wayne & Vera Ralston

Fighting Seabees, The colorized (1944) John Wayne & Susan Hayward

Flame of Barbary Coast colorized (1945) John Wayne & Ann Dvorak

Flying Down to Rio colorized (1933) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers & Dolores del Rio

Flying Tigers colorized (1942) John Wayne & John Carroll

For Me and My Gal colorized (1942) Judy Garland, George Murphy & Gene Kelly

Forbidden Zone colorized (1982) Herve Villechaize & Susan Tyrell

Fort Apache colorized (1948) John Wayne & Henry Fonda

Fugitive, The colorized (1947) Henry Fonda & Dolores del Rio

Fury colorized (1936) Spencer Tracy & Sylvia Sidney

Gaslight colorized (1944) Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman & Joseph Cotten

Gay Divorcee, The colorized (1934) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

Gazebo, The colorized (1959) Glenn Ford & Debbie Reynolds

Gentleman Jim colorized (1942) Errol Flynn & Alexis Smith

Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The colorized (1947) Rex Harrison & Gene Tierney

Giant Gila Monster, The colorized (1959) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone & Fred Graham

Global Affair, A colorized (1964) Bob Hope

Gold Strike River AKA Lucky Texan, The colorized (1934) John Wayne

Goodbye Mr. Chips colorized (1939) Robert Donat & Greer Garson

Gospel According to St. Matthew, The colorized (1964) Enrique Irazoqui & Margherita Caruso

Great Rupert, The colorized (1950) AKA  A Christmas Wish, Jimmy Durante & Terry Moore

Great Sinner, The colorized (1949) Gregory Peck & Ava Gardner

Great Ziegfeld, The colorized (1936) William Powell & Myrna Loy

Gung Ho! colorized (1943) Randolph Scott & Robert Mitchum

Gunga Din colorized (1939) Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr & Victor McLaglen

Guns Along the Trail AKA Paradise Canyon colorized (1935) John Wayne

Heidi colorized (1937) Shirley Temple & Jean Hersholt

High Noon colorized (1952) Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly

High Sierra colorized (1941) Humphrey Bogart & Ida Lupino

High Wall colorized (1947) Robert Taylor & Herbert Marshall

Hill, The colorized (1965) Sean Connery & Harry Andrews

Holiday Affair colorized (1949) Robert Mitchum & Janet Leigh

Holiday Inn colorized (1942) Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire

Honky Tonk colorized (1941) Clark Gable & Lana Turner

Hook, The colorized (1963) Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams & Robert Walker Jnr

House on Haunted Hill colorized (1959) Vincent Price

Hucksters, The colorized (1947) Clark Gable, Ava Gardner & Deborah Kerr

Human Comedy, The colorized (1943) Mickey Rooney, Donna Reed, Van Johnson  & Frank Morgan

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The colorized (1939) Charles Laughton & Maureen O’Hara

Hurricane, The colorized (1937) Jon Hall & Dorothy Lamour

I Love Lucy’s 50^th Anniversary Special colorized (2001) Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz

I Remember Mama colorized (1948) Irene Dunne & Barbara Bel Geddes

I’ll Cry Tomorrow colorized (1955) Susan Hayward & Richard Conte

Imitation General colorized (1958) Glenn Ford & Red Buttons

In Name Only colorized (1939) Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis & Charles Coburn

In Old California colorized (1942) John Wayne & Binnie Barnes

In Old Oklahoma AKA War of the Wildcats colorized (1943) John Wayne, Martha Scott & Albert Dekker

In This Our Life colorized (1942) Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland & George Brent

Invasion of the Body Snatchers colorized (1956) Kevin McCarthy & Dana Wynter

It Came from Beneath the Sea colorized (1955) Kenneth Tobey

It’s a Wonderful Life colorized (1946) James Stewart & Donna Reed

It’s a Wonderful World colorized (1939) James Stewart & Claudette Colbert

Jackie Robinson Story, The colorized (1950) Jackie Robinson & Ruby Dee

Jailhouse Rock colorized (1957) Elvis Presley

Jezebel colorized (1938) Bette Davis, Henry Fonda & George Brent

Johnny Belinda colorized (1948) Jane Wyman & Lew Ayres

Johnny Eager colorized (1942) Robert Taylor & Lana Turner

Journey into Fear colorized (1943) Joseph Cotton, Dolores del Rio & Orson Welles

Joy of Living colorized (1938) Irene Dunne & Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

Julie colorized (1956) Doris Day, Louis Jordan & Barry Sullivan

Julius Caesar colorized (1953) Marlon Brando, Greer Garson & Deborah Kerr (1^st 20 seconds b/w)

Just around the Corner colorized (1938) Shirley Temple & Joan Davis

Key Largo colorized (1948) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall & Edward G Robinson

Killer McCoy colorized (1947) Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy & Ann Blyth

Killer Shrews, The colorized (1959) James Best Ingrid Goude & Ken Curtis

King Kong colorized (1933) Fay Wray & Bruce Cabot

Kings Row colorized (1942) Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings & Ronald Reagan

Kit Carson colorized (1940) Jon Hall, Lynn Bari & Dana Andrews

Knute Rockne, All American colorized (1940) Pat O’Brien, Gale Page & Ronald Reagan

Lady from Louisiana colorized (1941) John Wayne

Lady Takes a Chance, A colorized (1943) John Wayne & Jean Arthur

Last Days of Pompeii , The colorized (1935) Preston Foster, Alan Hale & Basil Rathbone

Last Gangster, The colorized (1937) Edward G Robinson & James Stewart  

Last Man on Earth, The colorized (1964) Vincent Price  

Last of the Mohicans, The colorized (1936) Randolph Scott & Binnie Barnes

Laurel & Hardy, A Chump at Oxford colorized (1940)

Laurel & Hardy, Block-Heads colorized (1938)

Laurel & Hardy, Pack up your Troubles colorized (1932)

Laurel & Hardy, Way Out West (1937) Berth Marks (1929) Laughing Gravy (1931) all colorized on one DVD

Laurel & Hardy, The Music Box (1932) March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) Helpmates (1932) all colorized on one DVD

Laurel & Hardy, The Flying Deuces colorized (1939)

Laurel & Hardy, Hog Wild (1930) The Chimp (1932) Men O’ War (1929) Beau Hunks (1931) Chickens Come Home (1931) all colorized on one DVD

Laurel & Hardy, Below Zero (1930) Perfect Day (1929) Our Wife (1931) Blotto (1930) Be Big (1931) County Hospital (1932) all colorized on one DVD

Laurel & Hardy, Pardon Us (1931), The Hoose-Gow (1929), Going Bye Bye ! (1934), & The Midnight Patrol (1933) all colorized on one DVD

Laurel & Hardy, Saps at Sea colorized (1940)

Laurel & Hardy, The Bohemian Girl colorized (1936)

Laurel & Hardy, Towed in a Hole colorized (1932) & March of the Wooden Soldiers colorized (1934)

Letter, The colorized (1940) Bette Davis & Herbert Marshall

Libeled Lady colorized (1936) William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy & Jean Harlow

Life of Emile Zola, The colorized (1937) Paul Muni & Gale Sondergaard

Little Colonel, The colorized (1935) Shirley Temple & Lionel Barrymore

Little Miss Broadway colorized (1938) Shirley Temple, George Murphy & Jimmy Durante

Little Miss Marker colorized (1934) Adolphe Menjou & Shirley Temple

Little Rascals, The colorized (1930-1940) The Best of Our Gang

Little Rascals, The colorized (1930-1940) The Best of Spanky

Little Rascals, The colorized (1930-1940) Superstars of Our Gang

Little Shop of Horrors, The colorized (1960) Jonathan Haze & Jack Nicholson (Swedish Subtitles) PAL

Little Women colorized (1933) Katharine Hepburn & Joan Bennett

Lone Star colorized (1952) Clark Gable & Ava Gardner

Longest Day, The colorized (1962) John Wayne & every other actor

Love Me Tender colorized (1956) Elvis Presley, Richard Egan & Debra Paget (Japanese Subtitles embedded) 

Lucky Texan, The AKA Gold Strike River colorized (1934) John Wayne

Lusty Men, The colorized (1952) Robert Mitchum & Susan Hayward

Macao) colorized (1952 Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell & William Bendix

Mad Miss Manton, The colorized (1938) Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda

Madame Bovary colorized (1949) James Mason & Jennifer Jones

Made for Each Other colorized (1939) James Stewart & Carole Lombard

Magic Town colorized (1947) James Stewart & Jane Wyman

Magnificent Ambersons, The colorized (1942) Joseph Cotten & Anne Baxter

Maltese Falcon, The colorized (1941) Humphrey Bogart & Mary Astor

Man from Utah, The colorized (1934) John Wayne

Man in the Iron Mask, The colorized (1939) Louis Hayward & Joan Bennett

Man Who Came to Dinner, The colorized (1942) Bette Davis & Monte Woolley

Manhattan Melodrama colorized (1934) Clark Gable, William Powell & Myrna Loy

Mark of the Vampire colorized (1935) Lionel Barrymore & Bela Lugosi

Mark of Zorro, The colorized (1940) Tyrone Power & Linda Darnell

Mask of Dimitrios, The colorized (1944) Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre & Zachary Scott

Mask of Fu Manchu, The colorized (1932) Boris Karloff & Myrna Loy

Meet John Doe colorized (1941) Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck

Mickey Mouse Colorized Classics colorized (15 cartoons  from 1929 to 1934 & all colorized) Email me for the titles

Mighty Joe Young colorized (1949) Ben Johnson & Terry Moore

Mildred Pierce colorized (1945) Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott & Jack Carson

Miracle of the Bells, The colorized (1948) Fred MacMurray & Frank Sinatra

Miracle on 34^th Street colorized (1947) Maureen O’Hara & John Payne

Miss Annie Rooney colorized (1942) Shirley Temple

Missile to the Moon colorized (1958) Richard Travis & Cathy Downs

Money Trap, The colorized (1965) Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth & Joseph Cotten

Mortal Storm, The colorized (1940) James Stewart & Robert Young

Most Dangerous Game, The colorized (1932) Joel McCrea

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House colorized (1948) Cary Grant & Myrna Loy

Mr. Buddwing colorized (1966) James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette & Angela Lansbury

Mr. Lucky colorized (1943) Cary Grant & Laraine Day

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid colorized (1948) William Powell & Ann Blyth

Mrs. Miniver colorized (1942) Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon

Murder, My Sweet colorized (1944) Dick Powell & Claire Trevor

Mutiny on the Bounty colorized (1935) Clark Gable & Charles Laughton

My Favorite Brunette colorized (1947) Bob Hope & Dorothy Lamour

My Favorite Wife colorized (1940) Cary Grant & Irene Dunn

My Man Godfrey colorized (1936) William Powell & Carole Lombard

Mystery of the Wax Museum (2-strip Technicolor) (1933) Lionel Atwill & Fay Wray

Narrow Margin, The colorized (1952) Charles McGraw

Neath the Arizona Skies colorized (1934) John Wayne

Never a Dull Moment colorized (1950) Irene Dunne & Fred MacMurray

Night at the Opera, A colorized (1935) The Marx Brothers

Night of the Iguana , The colorized (1964) Richard Burton, Ava Gardner & Deborah Kerr

Night of the Living Dead colorized (1968) Duane Jones

Ninotchka colorized (1939) Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas & Bela Lugosi

Now and Forever colorized (1934) Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple & Carole Lombard

Objective, Burma! colorized (1945) Errol Flynn

On Dangerous Ground colorized (1952) Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino & Ward Bond

One Minute to Zero colorized (1952) Robert Mitchum, Richard Egan & Ann Blyth

One Touch of Venus colorized (1948) Ava Gardner & Robert Walker

Our Little Girl colorized (1935) Shirley Temple & Joel McRea

Out of the Past colorized (1947) Robert Mitchum & Jane Greer

Outlaw, The colorized (1943) Jane Russell & Thomas Mitchell

Outrage, The colorized (1964) Paul Newman & Edward G Robinson

Paradise Canyon AKA Guns Along the Trail colorized (1935) John Wayne

Passage to Marseille colorized (1944) Humphrey Bogart & Claude Rains

Pat and Mike colorized (1952) Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn

Patch of Blue, A colorized (1965) Sidney Poitier & Shelley Williams

Penny Serenade colorized (1941) Cary Grant & Irene Dunne

Petrified Forest, The colorized (1936) Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard & Bette Davis

Phantom from Space colorized (1953)  Ted Cooper & Tom Daly

Phantom of the Opera  2-Strip Technicolor (1925) Lon Chaney & Mary Philbin

Phantom Planet, The colorized (1961) Dean Fredericks & Coleen Gray

Philadelphia Story, The colorized (1940) Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & James Stewart

Plan 9 from Outer Space colorized (1959) Gregory Walcott & Mona McKinnon

Poor Little Rich Girl colorized (1936) Shirley Temple & Alice Faye

Possessed colorized (1947) Joan Crawford, Van Heflin & Raymond Massey

Postman Always Rings Twice, The colorized (1946) John Garfield & Lana Turner

Pride and Prejudice colorized (1940) Laurence Olivier & Greer Garson

Pride of the Marines colorized (1945) John Garfield & Eleanor Parker

Pride of the Yankees, The colorized (1942) Gary Cooper & Teresa Wright

Prince & the Pauper, The colorized (1937) Errol Flynn & Claude Rains

Prisoner of Zenda, The colorized (1937) Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr & David Niven

Rachel and the Stranger colorized (1948) Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young & William Holden

Rack, The colorized (1956) Paul Newman & Wendell Corey

Racket, The colorized (1951) Robert Mitchum & Robert Ryan

Random Harvest colorized (1942) Ronald Colman & Greer Garson

Ransom! colorized (1956) Glenn Ford & Donna Reed

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm colorized (1938) Shirley Temple & Randolph Scott

Red Badge of Courage, The colorized (1951) Audie Murphy

Red Dust colorized (1932) Clark Gable & Jean Harlow

Red River colorized (1948) John Wayne & Montgomery Clift

Reefer Madness colorized (1936) AKA Tell your Children

Return of the Bad Men colorized (1948) Randolph Scott & Robert Ryan

Riders of Destiny colorized (1933) John Wayne

Rin Tin Tin, Hero of the West colorized (1954) Lee Aaker 

Rio Grande colorized (1950) John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara

Roaring Twenties, The colorized (1939) James Cagney, Priscilla Lane & Humphrey Bogart

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher colorized (1945) Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi

Robin Hood, Quest for the Crown colorized (1991) Richard Greene

Robin Hood, The Movie colorized (1991) Richard Greene

Robin Hood’s Greatest Adventures colorized (1991) Richard Greene

Rogue Cop colorized (1954) Robert Taylor, George Raft & Janet Leigh

Room Service colorized (1938) The Marx Brothers & Lucille Ball

Sagebrush Trail AKA An Innocent Man colorized (1933) John Wayne

Saint Joan colorized (1957) Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd & John Gielgud

San Francisco colorized (1936) Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald & Spencer Tracy

Sands of Iwo Jima colorized (1949) John Wayne & John Agar

Santa Fe Trail colorized (1940) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland & Ronald Reagan

Scarlet Pimpernel, The colorized (1934) Leslie Howard & Merle Oberon

Scrooge colorized (1935) Sir Seymour Hicks

Seabiscuit - The Lost Documentary colorized (1939)

Sea Hawk, The colorized (1940) Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall & Claude Rains

Sea Wolf, The colorized (1941) Edward G Robinson & John Garfield

Search, The colorized (1948) Montgomery Clift & Wendell Corey

Second Chorus colorized (1940) Fred Astaire & Paulette Goddard

Sergeant York colorized (1941) Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan & Joan Leslie

Set-Up, The colorized (1949) Robert Ryan & Audrey Totter

Seventh Cross, The colorized (1944) Spencer Tracy & Signe Hasso

Seventh Victim, The colorized (1943) Tom Conway & Kim Hunter

Shaggy Dog, The colorized (1959) Fred MacMurray

She colorized (1935) Randolph Scott

Sherlock Holmes & Prelude to Murder aka Dressed to Kill colorized (1946) Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Sherlock Holmes & Terror By Night colorized (1946) Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Sherlock Holmes & The Secret Weapon colorized (1943) Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Sherlock Holmes & The Woman in Green colorized (1945) Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Shop Around the Corner, The colorized (1940) James Stewart & Margaret Sullavan

Soldiers Three colorized (1951) Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon & David Niven

Somebody Up There Likes Me colorized (1956) Paul Newman & Pier Angeli

Something to Sing About colorized (1937) James Cagney & William Frawley

Son of Flubber colorized (1963) Fred MacMurray & Nancy Olsen

Son of Kong colorized (1933) Robert Armstrong & Helen Mack

Son of Monte Cristo, The colorized (1940) Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett & George Sanders

Stagecoach colorized (1939) John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell  & Claire Trevor

Stagecoach Run AKA Winds of the Wasteland colorized (1936) Run John Wayne & Jon Hall

Stand Up and Cheer colorized (1934) Shirley Temple & Warner Baxter

Stars in My Crown colorized (1950) Joel McCrea

Station West colorized (1948) Dick Powell & Jane Greer

Stolen Goods AKA Blue Steel colorized (1934) John Wayne

Stowaway colorized (1936) Robert Young & Shirley Temple

Stranger, The colorized (1946) Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles & Loretta Young

Stratton Story, The colorized (1949) James Stewart & June Allyson

Suddenly colorized (1954) Frank Sinatra & Sterling Hayden

Susannah of the Mounties colorized (1939) Shirley Temple & Randolph Scott

Suspicion colorized (1941) Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine & Nigel Bruce

Swing Parade of 1946 colorized (1946) Gale Storm & the Three Stooges

Tale of Two Cities, A colorized (1935) Ronald Colman & Basil Rathbone  

Tall in the Saddle colorized (1944) John Wayne & Ella Raines

Tall Target, The colorized (1951) Dick Powell & Paula Raymond

Tarzan, The Ape Man colorized (1932) Johnny Weismuller & Maureen O’Sullivan

Test Pilot colorized (1938) Clark Gable, Myrna Loy & Spencer Tracy

They Died With Their Boot’s On colorized (1941) Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland

They Drive by Night colorized (1940) George Raft, Ann Sheridan & Humphrey Bogart

They Live By Night colorized (1948) Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell & Howard Da Silva

They Were Expendable colorized (1945) John Wayne & Robert Montgomery

They Won’t Believe Me colorized (1947) Robert Young, Susan Haywood &  Jane Greer

Thin Man, The colorized (1934) William Powell & Myrna Loy

Thing from Another World, The colorized (1951) James Arness

Things to Come colorized (1936) Raymond Massey & Ralph Richardson

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo colorized (1944) Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson & Robert Mitchum

Three Comrades colorized (1938) Robert Taylor & Robert Young

Three Faces West colorized (1940) John Wayne, Charles Coburn & Sigrid Gurie

 Three Stooges , The colorized (2 Disks) (Punch Drunks, Men in Black, Hoi Polloi, Disorder in the Court, Playing   the Ponies, The Sitter-Downers, Violent is the Word, You Natzy Spy, No Census..No Feeling, an Ache in Every  Stake, Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Malice in the Palace)

Three Stooges, The colorized (1936) Disorder in the Court & (1947) Brideless Groom

Three Strangers colorized (1946) Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre

Till the End of Time colorized (1946) Robert Mitchum, Dorothy McGuire & Guy Madison

Tip on a Dead Jockey colorized (1957) Robert Taylor & Dorothy Malone

To Have and Have Not colorized (1944) Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall

Tom Brown’s Schooldays colorized (1951) Robert Newton, Michael Hordern & John Howard Davies

Tom Dick and Harry colorized (1941) Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alam Marshall & Burgess Meredith

Too Hot to Handle colorized (1938) Clark Gable & Myrna Loy

Topper colorized (1937) Cary Grant, Roland Young & Constance Bennett

Topper Returns colorized (1941) Roland Young & Joan Blondell

Topper Takes a Trip colorized (1938) Roland Young & Constance Bennett

Torrid Zone colorized (1940) James Cagney, Ann Sheridan & Pat O’Brien

Tortilla Flat colorized (1942) Spencer Tracy & John Garfield

Treasure Island colorized (1934) Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Nigel Bruce & Lionel Barrymore  

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The colorized (1948) Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston & Tim Holt

Trial colorized (1955) Glenn Ford & Dorothy McGuire

Two Mrs. Carroll’s, The colorized (1947) Humphrey Bogart & Barbara Stanwyck

Until They Sail colorized (1957) Paul Newman, Jean Simmons & Joan Fontaine

Valley of Decision, The colorized (1945) Gregory Peck & Greer Garson

Village of the Damned colorized (1960) George Sanders

Virginia City colorized (1940) Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott & Humphrey Bogart

Wagon Master colorized (1950) Ben Johnson, Ward Bond & Joanne Dru

Wake of the Red Witch colorized (1948) John Wayne, Gail Russell & Gig Young

War of the Wildcats AKA In Old Oklahoma colorized (1943) John Wayne, Martha Scott & Albert Dekker 

Waterloo Bridge colorized (1940) Robert Taylor & Vivien Leigh

Wee Willie Winkie colorized (1937) Shirley Temple & Victor McLaglen

West of the Divide colorized (1934) John Wayne

Westerner, The colorized (1940) Gary Cooper & Walter Brennan

Westward the Women colorized (1941) Robert Taylor & Denise Darcel

While the City Sleeps colorized (1956) Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming & George Sanders

White Heat colorized (1949) James Cagney & Virginia Mayo

White Zombie colorized (1932) Bela Lugosi (plus I Walked with a Zombie b/w)

Winds of the Wasteland AKA Stagecoach Run colorized (1936) Run John Wayne & Jon Hall

Without Reservations colorized (1946) John Wayne & Claudette Colbert

Woman in the Window, The colorized (1944) Edward G Robinson

Woman of the Year colorized (1942) Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn

Yankee Doodle Dandy colorized (1942) James Cagney & Joan Leslie

Young in Heart, The colorized (1938) Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Janet Gaynor & Paulette Goddard

Young Tom Edison colorized (1940) Mickey Rooney & Fay Bainter

Your Cheatin’ Heart colorized (1964) George Hamilton & Susan Oliver

Zombies of the Stratosphere colorized (1952) Judd Holdren, Aline Towne & Leonard Nimoy 

 you can contact me at  ratchanee.c@bigpond.com

Regards

Graham

Video Collector said:

I still watch my colorised King Kong laserdisc from time to time. I remember Doug Pratt of the Laserdisc Newsletter prefaced his review of it with "Purists need not apply." Ha ha. KK and the Sony Blus of Harryhausen's colorized films are a pleasure, but I'd balk at a colorised Citizen Kane.

I have been thinking a lot lately about combining the chroma from the KK LD with the Warner BD. Unfortunately the cropping is different between the two so it would entail a lot of manual repositiong of the colours to really make it work. There are probably differences in the frame count between the two to also account for.

Not that I am in any way technically competent to do this, but the theory is sound. I was hoping dark_jedi and his team would tackle this, but as I understand it they need another project like they need a third ear :-)

Damn I forgot about that title, I would love a colorized King Kong 1933, but if we could get this to work that would be nice, that is what we were trying to do with NOTLD 68.

lol just as soon as we can get some of these damn projects out the door and close to releasing others I was tossing around the idea of a request type thread.

Spaced Ranger said:

skyjedi2005 said:

There has been a recent revival in the Colorization Of films especially undertaken by Ray Harryhausen for the films he worked on.

Bravo, Ray Harryhausen! And about time to throw the torches & pitch-forks of anti-colorization-P.C. (political communism) back onto the trash-heap of the dark ages, where it belongs.

Really late for this party, but glad to see there's still some punch in the bowl.  :)

To answer a now very old question -- yes, you can inject a lower quality colorized source's color information into a higher quality B&W source ... easily and with excellent results! In this Walt Disney's Zorro proof of concept, I combined a YouTube colorized posting (320x240) with a cable-TV B&W capture (720x480) in a paint program using it's split channel & combine channel (HSL) functions:

Naturally, the YouTube was small, smeared, and blocky, which required fix-ups: JPEG Artifacts Removal (maximum); increasing the weak saturation; resizing and repositioning to match the B&W image. From this, the Hue and Saturation were HSL separated for use in the final recombination.

The broadcast was better, of course, but still needed improvement: Edge-Preserving Smooth for the broadcast "noise"; sharpening the slight picture softness; rebalancing the picture's brightness spectrum (from 20-240 to 0-255). From this, the Lightness was HSL separated for use in the final recombination.

 Spaced Ranger,

First off, I just wanted to say I think what you did there is awesome. 

Now, could you tell me what software you used to do this?

Also, do any instructions/tutorials exist for doing what you did with this software? I am very, very interested. Feel free to private message me with any info you might be willing to share.

Thanks In Advance!

Sincerely

Larkofam.

I, too, am interested in a tutorial to do this easily. I would like to do this with Miracle on 34th Street, as we have a beautiful BD source for the B&W but only a DVD source for the colorized version. Would love to combine the two...

I don't get this thread.

TV's Frink said:

I don't get this thread.

 What is there to "get?" Assuming you know how to read, it's pretty self-explanatory...

But these are the kind of useless comments I've seen you make in numerous threads on here. Don't know if you're a joker or if you're serious and I don't really care. Have a nice day!

Sorry for the delay in replying, but I just saw that this party is still jumpin'!  :)

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@ larkofam

Thanks! I use a standard paint program for all my proof-of-concept tests. The process is exactly as described above. Those tests can be replicated, hopefully, in Avisynth (freeware) for video processing. If Avisynth's built-in processes don't handle it, usually a 3rd-party plug-in (also free) will. I've never gone that far with the above Disney's Zorro test ... yet.

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@ jedi_jra & colorizedfan

BTW, those are excellent lists of colorizations! I'm green with envy! 

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@ larkofam & jerryshadoe & Space Hunter M

I'll try to work up an Avisynth script on still pictures (which would work the same as on video streams).

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@ TV's Frink

  I know, I know ... I have the same problem with SilverWook's TV alert!

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@ SilverWook

Thanks for the broadcast heads-up! Unfortunately ... I don't get it (literally).

I thought Disney had put this "back into the vault" years ago. I hope someone's saving it all ...

"We're only gonna get one chance, Derebridge. That thing won't be back for another 76 years, and we'll both be dead. We have to take a look now."

-Lifeforce (1985)

@SpacedRanger,

Thanks in advance!

The first (and easiest) thing I wanted to do was a paint program test. Taking jerryshadoe's cue, I went with Miracle On 34th Street. From the available DVD and Blu-ray of that movie, the final result should be spectacular.

For me, it was off to YouTube to look for standard-def colorized and high-def B&W sources. Pickings' were pretty slim but I found the needed matching snapshots. The SD 360p colorize was pretty bad -- from weak, wrong-tinted, and color-smeared video tape, with massive YouTube compression. The HD 720p was better but it had the poster's logo-bug on it (I mean, really?).

Regardless of the sources, you should always fix each with a critical eye to make it as pristine as it can become. Then the smaller colorized source would be resized and repositioned to match the B&W source. Black-border the clean picture area of each to prevent weird coloring in garbage-filled edges. And, for the best end result, correct the luminances of one or both sources to match your ideal picture, before splitting/recombining the H-S-L parts.

What to expect? Something like this (shown here half-sized to fit this page):

     YouTube SD @ 360p (needs fix-ups)                                    YouTube HD @ 720p
               for Hue and Saturation                                                      for Luminance

                          HS & L recombination for SD colorization (fixed) at HD resolution

Of course, the caveats for this method:
     * sources with different aspect ratios requiring image crop or fill-in of missing color (note outlines)
     * non-uniform sizes from the masters requiring piecemeal resize-matching

The process starts with the standard definition (SD) colorized source (in this case, a YouTube screenshot) ..

.. and it can be used as-is. But it really needs to be spiffed up. I use a paint program to get the shot where I want it to go. Once there, Avisynth, or another video program, is used to achieve the same result, even if from different processes in that environment.

First, to get that "fog" of muted color fixed up, I use Color Balance to adjust the ambiance of the shot with a luminance temperature slider. This is moved from it's default position of "Sunlight" (6500K) to the "Incandescent bulb" (2500K) direction. 5600K looked like a good enhancement value -- it expanded the apparent depth of colors without color-washing it. Granted, a subtle effect ..

.. but a step in the right direction.

Next, the colors need some strength. Using the Hue/Saturation/Lightness color wheel, shift the Hue of the entire spectrum slightly towards red while bumping up the Saturation a good amount. However, doing that also over emphasizes an odd splash of aqua on the lapels of the left-hand jacket (and nowhere else). That requires Hue shifting the blue spectrum-segment in the opposite direction while dramatically dropping it's Saturation ... to match the rest of the jacket ..

Now it's starting to look good.

The last and most important correction is luminance for better brightness & contrast. The luminance of the colorized SD source must align to the luminance of the B&W high definition (HD) source (assuming the B&W source is at it's best).

NOTE: unless the luminances are thus synchronized, the final result might have noticeably skewed coloring from the different brightness levels. It's not that big a difference when transferring colorizing between B&W sources. However, using this technique to transfer color between different colored sources will suffer if this alignment is not made.

So, the easiest way to do this is to split out the luminance from both sources (using Split Channel - HSL). Then obtain the setting values by adjusting the SD source to match the HD source (using Histogram - Luminance) ..

    SD 360p luminance: start

               HD 720p luminance: target

    SD 360p luminance: finish

After that, discard those temporary luminance pictures (no longer needed) and apply the obtained settings directly to the colorized source ..

The newly spiffed colorized source now is ready for the H-S-L recombination treatment.

So how does one do this with an entire video? Is that even possible? Feasible?

Oh, sure!
Colorizing movies were originally made by a physical process where a limited-color palette of color overlays were applied to physical areas presenting each frame (or groups of no-motion frames). These limited color-patches were applied throughout the entire film.

So, once a digital process is established, just let it run from beginning to end and that should be the complete project. The corrections I made to the colorized YouTube snapshot therefore should be a representative gin-up of the entire, original colorizing process ... if we were to use those specific  YouTube sources. Better sources shouldn't need fix-ups, unless for better esthetics.

This can be seen in the recent LegendFilms colorization of The Little Rascals on DVD (should be a digital process now-a-days).

  Notice that the Hues are essentially flat, and uniformly cover wide areas. (Just think rooms full of women workers knife-cutting celluloid sheets of different colors for specific areas of each shot. Yep, that's how it was done!) Saturation is pretty much uniform for all those Hues ... just like in those old days.

In fact, the more ambitious and meticulous restorer could digitally recreate the Hue masks to apply over the B&W original for perfect colorization.