I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I like colorization. It’s a scientific advance that can enhance some black and white movies and when used on historic photos it makes the person — and their time — much more…like…now. Here’s another collection of rare historic photos in color:
Here’s the first collection of photos and colorized film that ran on TMV.
Here’s a 1932 Little Rascals short that has been colorized:
A complete colorized Laurel and Hardy short:
I don’t think it worked well when used in the 1933 original King Kong. The background artwork was all too apparently artwork. Here’s an excerpt:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.