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From: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker)
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Subject: Re: Colorization of old monochrome prints
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 12:03:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 12:03:00 1985
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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