Colorization was once considered a potential gold mine: all of those classic black and white films could be turned into color and made more accessible to younger generations. But it didn’t quite work out that way: it was a novelty that was tried, but didn’t really turn great old films into new gold.
But I LIKE colorization. Here’s the full Laurel and Hardy short from the 1930s — colorized:
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.