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it if necessary. The technician selects a color for each object based on common "memory" colors—such as blue sky, white clouds, flesh tones, and green grass—and on any information about colors used in the movie. If color publicity stills or props are available to examine, authentic colors may be applied. In the absence of any better information, technicians may choose colors that fit the gray level and are consistent with what a director might have wanted for the scene. The software associates a variation of the basic color with each gray level in the object, while keeping intensity levels the same as in the monochrome original. The software then follows each object from frame to frame, applying the same color until the object leaves the frame. As new objects come into the frame, the technician must associate colors to each new object in the same way as described above. This technique was patented in 1991.
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adding color to black and white films, even if it's only to the tape shown on TV or sold in stores, is vandalism nonetheless." Roger Ebert added, "What was so wrong about black and white movies in the first place? By filming in black and white, movies can sometimes be more dreamlike and elegant and stylized and mysterious. They can add a whole additional dimension to reality, while color sometimes just supplies additional unnecessary information."
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Legend Films describes their core technology as pattern recognition and background compositing that moves and morphs foreground and background masks from frame to frame. In the process, backgrounds are colorized separately in a single composite frame which functions as a visual database of a cut, and
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film print available is used. With the aid of computer software, technicians associate a range of gray levels to each object and indicate to the computer any movement of the objects within a shot. The software is also capable of sensing variations in the light level from frame-to-frame and correcting
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at the time, and, as a result, Markle and Holmes responded by returning Capra's initial investment, eliminating his financial participation, and refusing outright to allow the director to exercise artistic control over the colorization of his films, leading Capra to join in the campaign against the
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addressing colorization as "Hollywood's New Vandalism". Siskel explained how networks were unable to show classic black-and-white films in prime-time unless they offer it in color. "They arrest people who spray subway cars, they lock up people who attack paintings and sculptures in museums, and
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technology, the notion of colorization was once again gaining press. Because the DVD format was more versatile, studios could offer viewers the option to choose between both versions without switching discs, and thus, the release of colorized titles once again seemed profitable. Some companies
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Inc., and, on the basis of their review, we have decided not to proceed with colorization of the movie. ... While a court test might uphold our legal right to colorize the film, provisions of the contract could be read to prohibit colorization without permission of the Welles
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technology that produces saturated and crisp colors with clear lines and no apparent spill-over. The process is cost effective because it relies on computers rather than human effort, and is equally suitable for low-budget colorization and broadcast-quality or theatrical
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networks. With computer technology, studios were able to add color to black-and-white films by digitally tinting single objects in each frame of the film until it was fully colorized (the first authorized computer-colorizations of B&W cartoons were commissioned by
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Computerized colorization began in the 1970s using the technique invented by Wilson Markle. These early attempts at colorization have soft contrast and fairly pale, flat, washed-out color; however, the technology has improved steadily since the 1980s.
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to set a binding precedent in 1991 that prevents the distribution or broadcasting in France of any colorized version of a film against the wishes of the original creator or their heirs. Major legislative reaction in the United States was the
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movie premiere with footage of the premiere's reenactment. The colorization by Legend Films was designed to look like normal three-strip film but was then color corrected to match the two-strip look of the premiere's reenactment. Also in
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on DVD. Because the first season was produced in black-and-white, Sony released two versions of the set: one with the episodes as originally broadcast and a second with the episodes colorized. A year later, the second season of
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Colorization has also been used to restore scenes from color films that were cut from the finished product but were preserved in black-and-white. In 2018, the originally intended closing scene to the 1978 film
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was once an aggressive proponent of this process, by employing the San Diego firm American Film Technologies. When he told members of the press in July 1988 that he was considering colorizing
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Partial colorization has also been utilized on footage shot in color to enhance commercials and broadcast television to further facilitate the director's artistic vision. As an example,
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In order to colorize a still image, an artist typically begins by dividing the image into regions, and then assigning a color to each region. This approach, also known as the
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should again be on the cutting edge of change, this time heralding the age of Colorization as the first completed Color version of a classic black and white motion picture.
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have worked with the company to colorize either their own films or their personal favorites. Two movies that Legend Films are noted for is the colorization of the
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The earliest form of colorization introduced limited color into a black-and-white film using dyes, as a visual effect. The earliest Edison films, most notably the
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method. These were then utilized by SVS Resources to interpolate the color across the intervening surrounding frames using a part computerized/part manual process.
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color. The color design was based on color photographs taken at the same time as the special was shot. More Beatle footage was colorized for the 2016 documentary
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where some episodes originally produced in color only exist in black-and-white. However, there are no plans to use colorization on BBC programmes originally
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John Huston's opposition to the colorization of his work led to a landmark three-year French legal case after his death, sparked by a colorized version of
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to identify fuzzy or complex region boundaries, such as those between a subject's hair and face. Colorization of moving images also requires
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includes all offset data on each camera movement. Once the foreground areas are colorized, background masks are applied frame-to-frame.
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style, with more than twenty separate colors often used for a single film. Thuillier's lab produced about sixty hand-colored copies of
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became one of the first studios to venture into the business of computerized film colorization. Buying a 50 percent interest in
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based on Grant's enthusiasm. Colorization, Inc.'s art director Brian Holmes screened ten minutes of colorized footage from
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to Capra, which led Capra to sign a contract with Colorization, Inc. However, the film was believed to be in the
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This article is about colorization of monochrome moving-picture images. For colorization of still images, see
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Because of the high cost of the process, Turner Entertainment stopped colorizing titles. With the coming of
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episodes since they have no color information available and so cannot be recovered using these methods.
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The first film colorization methods were hand done by individuals. For example, at least 4% of
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which would not necessarily be as effective in color. Figures opposed to the process included
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A highly labor-intensive process employed by the UK-based film and video colorization artist
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of black and white copies that still have color information in them from color recordings
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process. As late as the 1920s, hand coloring processes were used for individual shots in
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actor Jimmy Stewart criticized efforts to colorize old black-and-white films, including
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A number of British television shows which were made in color in the early 1970s were
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method, is laborious and time-consuming, especially in the absence of fully automatic
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video frame) were fully colorized by hand, without the use of masks, layers, or the
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and was first used in 1970 to add color to monochrome footage of the moon from the
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for Turner Entertainment. Criticism increased with the AP's report that filmmaker
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Both film and television restoration and colorization is produced by the company
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rereleased the older colorized versions from the 1980s—an example of this is the
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Several companies claim to have produced automatic region-tracking algorithms:
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in the 2010s, which are timed to air on Friday nights in holiday periods.
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series, were also the earliest examples of colorization, done by painting
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Edgerton, Gary R. (Winter 2000). "The Germans Wore Gray, You Wore Blue".
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with many written resources and many photographs of hand colored prints.
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TV show colorizes some footage of the band, such as the performance of "
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met with Wilson Markle about colorizing the perennial Christmas classic
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Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States
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was reportedly "very gung-ho with the outcome" of the colorization of
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and newly discovered black and white footage in the director's cut of
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cartoons and among others were redistributed in color. Supervised by
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films for DVD release. The studio was given access to the original
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feature colorized war footage from the Second World War and the
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props and sets to lend authenticity to the colorized versions.
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To perform digital colorization, a digitized copy of the best
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reported that two companies were producing color tests of
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cartoons, which were colorized in 1987 for airing on the
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These colorization methods were employed until effective
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were made for export to countries that did not yet have
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in 1990). The initial process was invented by Canadian
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on colorization of black-and-white films, four parts:
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List of black-and-white films that have been colorized
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Practice of adding color to monochrome motion pictures
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Colorization examples, criticism, and controversies
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Index

Colorize
Hand-colouring

Lights of Old Broadway
Handschiegl process
American English
British English
Canadian English
Oxford English
black-and-white
sepia
digital image processing
List of early color feature films
George Méliès
The Impossible Voyage
George Méliès
A Trip to the Moon
The Kingdom of the Fairies
The Impossible Voyage
The Barber of Seville
Elisabeth Thuillier
assembly line
The Miracle
stencil
Pathécolor
Greed
The Phantom of the Opera
Handschiegl color process
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Last Days of Pompeii

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