Timeline for How is color determined when colorizing black and white movies?
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| Jun 9, 2021 at 20:37 | comment | added | Acccumulation | "The emulsion of early films (about 1920s and earlier) was almost completely insensitive to red (reds were rendered as blacks)" Hence darkrooms having red lights. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 5:02 | vote | accept | Muze | ||
| Apr 29, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | supercat | For movies which were originally shot in black and white, that's true. Occasionally portions of a film that was originally shot in color may survive only as black and white prints, and in those cases colorizing may be viewed as restoration, with the goal being to match any surviving reference material, if available. | |
| S Apr 29, 2018 at 7:41 | history | suggested | Amarjit Dhillon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2018 at 14:08 | vote | accept | Muze | ||
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| Apr 28, 2018 at 6:31 | history | edited | Agent_L | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed the part about makeup to more detailed and less misleading
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 20:28 | comment | added | T.E.D. | A famous example from the other side: some of the early colorizations in the late 80's rendered the eyes of Frank Sinatra (aka: "Old blue eyes") brown. Siskel & Ebert used it as exhibit A of why the entire idea was a disgrace to the art of film. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 14:05 | comment | added | Agent_L | @BradC I think that your point #3 interpreted as "how 2016 audience imagines 1920s looked like" is the most important consideration : ) | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 13:53 | comment | added | BradC | Good answer. As they say, it's an art, not a science. For historical photos of real events or people, reproducing the actual original colors might be the goal, but for colorizing movies its about choosing colors that are 1) realistic 2) consistent 3) attractive 4) enhance instead of detract from the original film 5) achieve whatever artistic effect the colorizer has in mind. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 13:39 | history | answered | Agent_L | CC BY-SA 3.0 |