Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!speaker From: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.movies,net.video Subject: Re: Colorization of old monochrome prints Message-ID: <464@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 12:03:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcb.464 Posted: Thu Oct 3 12:03:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 15:09:07 EDT References: <818@vortex.UUCP> Reply-To: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.tv:3318 net.movies:7845 net.video:1577 Let's here it! Apparently the process does not "sit on top" of the intensity information, as the old hand coloring of prints did as this would be eliminated by turning off the color. I too have seen the results of Hal Roach's efforts and am not amused. But then, how many people use B&W film today? Everyone wants COLOR photographs of aunt Jennie and uncle harry (both with gray hair, she in a black and white dress, he in his "sunday best" black suit standing in front of their white house in the snow of mid- winter in Cincinatti). In a related manner, add my disgust with the "modernization" of old silents, such as Metropolis. Sorry, comparing the copy of the original silent with a the modern Moroder (sp?) update leaves little doubt which set of production personnel understood the film, and which set was on an ego trip. --Kne Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com