When performers appear in full-frame shots, their bodies or instruments are garishly colorized.
There are scenes that are black-and-white (or so leeched of color as to appear almost without hue) and others that appear intentionally colorized.
Early attempts by mogul Ted Turner to colorize classic films went almost nowhere, thanks to a lack of interest from consumers and underwhelming results.
He didn't get royalties from the movie for a very long time, but it reached a huge audience as a result of its public domain status, and was even colorized.
They were next frustrated in their efforts to prohibit the copyrighting of colorized films.
It soon began appearing on video in both scratchy black and white and colourized versions from nearly every public domain house around.
The other side of the disc contains a colourized version that subverts the noir mood of the film.
This DVD release from Fox contains a new colorized print of the film.
It is one of a handful of films that really doesn't have to be colorized.
Other attendees expressed displeasure with Turner's decision to colorize the cinematic classic.
Sony has released two versions of this set - one in black and white and another which has been colorized.
Sandrew and his colleagues next selected several hundred frames or ‘cuts’ to colorize out of the approximately 175,000 in the entire film.
If you saw it in color, it was colorized, I'm sure.
Rubin called for her black-and-white films to be colorized by filters, randomly operated by the projectionists.
As the camera pans over photographs of his life - most of them digitally altered or colourized for maximum visual impact - Evans reads from his book.
But their reasons for asserting copyright can be the subject of reasonable disagreement (example, colorized films).
And oh, if you aren't unhappy enough with what you see of these black and white films, Fox also provides pallid colourized versions to make you even more angry.
What possible financial difference could it make to a contemporary film star whether or not some old Bogart movie is colorized?
Derivatives
colorization
noun
Just a few years ago, all the screaming was about colorization and how it was destroying the work of film masters.
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Some years ago, movie directors and critics complained about the colorization of old black and white film classics undertaken by Ted Turner's company.
The colorization argument is ludicrous - colorization is the wholesale changing of a movie without the consent of its director.
The colorized version also has the same dirt speckles, and I was impressed with the colorization (with the exceptions noted earlier).
Purists will want to opt for the original black and white set, because as far as colorization has come, it still looks too pastel and unrealistic.
But if the folks who take cinema seriously were so willing to agitate against colorization, where are they now?
Here again there is a parallel with colorization, which was touted as the only way to get people to watch certain old movies and TV shows.
colorizer
noun
It represented a notable improvement over previous colorizing efforts, especially in comparison with any analog examples from the other three colorizers.
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In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
Using advanced software and digitizing techniques, it's now possible to add many more colours to a film than in years past, resulting in far greater fidelity and at far less cost - even though he has 140 colourizers working for him at a plant in India.
A colourizer assigns different colours to different greyscale brightness levels of a video picture.
The colorizers, to their credit, have few pretensions.