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From: hofbauer@utcsri.UUCP (John Hofbauer)
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Subject: Re: Computer Colorization and Turning Down the Colour
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Date: Sun, 29-Dec-85 00:51:38 EST
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> 
> (2) Did directors really care that much about the shading and contrasts,
> so much so that the altering done by colourisation would destroy the
> effect?

You bet. That's the responsibility of the art director and set decorator.
The cinematographer would also be concerned. So even if the director was
"visually blind" :-) there were enough people to keep him out of trouble.

I haven't really noticed colourization destroying the effect because,
quite frankly, its been little more than a tint job. It is impossible
to reconstruct the necessary information from a B&W print, so you get
the obvious colouration: green grass, blue sky (or more frequently
bald sky), pink skin tones. Everything else looks more like a sepia
tint.