Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles hp 2.0 03/25/85; site hpisli.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!hpisla!jayj From: jayj@hpisla.UUCP (Jay Johannes) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Colorization of old monochrome prints Message-ID: <90900003@hpisli.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 11:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpisli.90900003 Posted: Wed Oct 2 11:51:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 06:08:15 EDT References: <818@vortex.UUCP> Organization: HP Instrument Systems Lab - Loveland, CO Lines: 17 I tend to agree on this one. Colorization is not Technicolor by any means. What you get tends to be pastels that give a washed out look. I suspect that brighter colors are not used because they can't handle the shading when using brilliant colors. The good news is that the originals still exist and are available. We don't have to put up with "improvements". I suspect that this is going to be a passing fad, rather than a trend. The unknown THEY have decided that older movies are losing popularity because of a lack of color. If colorization doesn't generate new revenue, then nobody will colorize. BTW, if you dont have access to a copy of TOPPER, you can look at the results by checking out the intro to the new Alfred Hitchcok (sp) series. They colorized and are reusing the intros from the original series. Check out the Sunday evening network schedule. (I am not really recommending the series, just providing data)