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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: B&W vs. Computer or hand tinted colo
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 13:16:41 EDT
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 >I am curious:  were directors of black and white films
 >attentive to color when they were filming?  I would think
 >that the directors of old-time color features were certainly
 >more attentive to it than black-and-white directors.  The
 >result might be some strange-looking colors revealed to us
 >through this new process.  Or am I wrong?

My understanding is that you are wrong.  When I first heard of the
process I also thought that it reconstituted the original colors.  That
would be pretty impressive.  I have heard since that it is an entirely
different process.  The first frame of a scene is shown to the
technician on some sort of TV screen I would guess.  He uses a light
pen to color it entirely himself.  The computer then uses those color
choices and colors the succeeding frames itself.  When a new surface
appears the computer stops and asks the technician to color it.

If something is supposed to change color during the course of a scene,
the computer might be a little stuck to handle that situation, but then
how often would such a scene appear in a black and white film?

				Mark Leeper
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