"Sabineellen" wrote in message
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Sure. But it essentially means coloring every frame by hand, and of
course you don't have the original colors, just the colors that you
decide to use.

are you suggesting they colored every frame from those movies by hand? i'm
almost sure i can vaguely remember something about them being digitally
colorized as part of their restoration. I mean there are now color version
of
those Early 50s Hitchcock movies well before color cinema was used, and
there's
the wizard of oz and many other black and white movies that were
colorized.

I would've thought by now some software would be able to do it.


Just to point out that those Hitchcock movies came out well after the
introduction of color cinematic film. The color portions of The Wizard of
Oz were originally shot in Technicolor, they were not "colorized." There
were many films made in the '30s and '40s in color, (Gone With the Wind) but
it was an expensive process and b&w was used to keep costs down. By the
'50s, b&w was used to evoke a mood, too, film noir wouldn't have been the
same in color...

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