To Color Or Not To Color

I was thinking these last years,about this.

Should old black and white movies be colorized?

I ask this cause we all know GL is against the idea,he want them to stay as they were filmed,in my opinion i think if he decide that he can change his movies,adding new stuff,removing some,and make Greedo shoot first,and all we can say is unimportant to him.

We could make him think that the producers of these old B&W movies,would also want their movies to be colorized,cause back then color film was more expensive than B&W films,and that they have first say on he subject.

And if he want B&W he just have to let color copies be made,then keep the B&W for himself.

Coloring books are life savers.

I have no problem with colourising old films if the original presentation is preserved and made available to purchase.

If that is set in stone alternative versions become interesting curios.

If the altered version becomes the default or only version it's cultural vandalism.

Is that "Night of the living dead"?

the top image look like its from a crappy VHS. lol

As for color movies,i know that "The longest day" has B&W for the english version,and color for french version.

The top image is from a crappy VHS (I have it here).

Yeah, only as an alternative. I'm still not entirely sold on the quality of colorizations either.

Nothing wrong with alternative versions in my book.

Of course I reserve the right to think the alternative version is absolute crap.

jero32 said:

Nothing wrong with alternative versions in my book.

Of course I reserve the right to think the alternative version is absolute crap.

 That is what i say in the first post,color for those who want to see the movies in color,and B&W for the B&W nostalgics.

And as others have mentioned,todays technology wont screw the process like the 1980s process did.

I have the Laurel and Hardy collection on dvd. Both B/W and colourized versions of each feature and short is there. Although I would never ever want to watch the colourized versions, they are there if you want them.

Wolfman said:

 

I have the Laurel and Hardy collection on dvd. Both B/W and colourized versions of each feature and short is there. Although I would never ever want to watch the colourized versions, they are there if you want them.

 How is the DVD of it,and have the damage caused by time,been repaired?

I have only had a quick look just to see what the colorization looked like, and to me, it was not good. Looked like the old Night Of The Living Dead picture above.

I'm no fan of colourization, but as long as it's done well and doesn't replace the original B&W version, I'm fine with it.

Now, how about decolourizing colour films into B&W? That would be interesting ...

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