Colorized Back and White or Black & White

[roadman65]

Just saw a colored remake of the first season of Gillian's Island.  To me it looked awful and rather see those episodes in their B & W format.

Does any like when other Black and White films or programs are specially colorized?

[Max Rockatansky]

I've never found that colorizing black and white film looked particularly good.  The film looks really washed out to me and the colors are usually too vibrant. 

[In_Correct]

Colourized ... Especially if the programme started in Black And White but ended in Colour.

Lots of people think that the programmes need to stay in black and white be cause that is what the creator of the programme requested.

This is not true with many programmes such as I Dream Of Jeannie. The creator of I Dream Of Jeannie requested the first season episodes to be in colour, but was denied.

They finally colourized the first season episodes to match the rest of the episodes. It can be considered a remaster as the bottle in the first season was dark green, but was supposed to be purple.

Other Programmes that I am glad are Colourized is Bewitched. They were supposed to end in 1975, which would make it awkward to watch the first two seasons if they did not Colourize them.

Hazel is a Programme that was mostly in Colour despite being produced in a time period that Colour was optional. Most of the first season is in Black & White. It would be best to have every episode of Hazel in Colour.

Another programme that would be better with every episode in Colour is Dark Shadows. Approximately 300 episodes were in Black And White either be cause of a slow switch to Colour as well as A.B.C. not preserving programmes properly. Several Colour episodes now exist only in Black & White.

I enjoy the Programmes now have every Episode in Colour. I do not find the Colour Process to be low quality. If the programme originally made any episodes in Colour, the Colour Process applied to the Black & White episodes is based on the episodes that were originally produced in Colour.

[US71]

I've never found that colorizing black and white film looked particularly good.  The film looks really washed out to me and the colors are usually too vibrant. 

It cam be done, but is labor intensive to do it right. The BBC has had some limited experience with it.

[nexus73]

"World War II In Color" has a mix of color and colorized film.  The blend looks good to me.  YMMV.

Rick

[thenetwork]

I agree on the Gilligan's Island colorized 1st season.  Those are the worst Ive seen.  But again, those were done in the infancy of colorization.  McHales Navy also was colorized early on, but I haven't seen them being rerun anywhere as they were bad as well.

Looking at the colorized I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke Show episodes done in the past few years, they really have improved the technology.  If the modern cllororized episodes still don't look perfect, keep in mind that many black and white shows had sets with limited color tones or parts of the set had abnormal colors so the items would show better in the black and white prints.

[roadman65]

The Munsters I heard was done purposely in Black and White to give the haunted house effect for the show.

The reason why the First Season of I Dream of Jeannie was denied color cause of the effects of the smoke out of the bottle cost more money in color than black and white.

[Stephane Dumas]

I've never found that colorizing black and white film looked particularly good.  The film looks really washed out to me and the colors are usually too vibrant. 

It cam be done, but is labor intensive to do it right. The BBC has had some limited experience with it.

Exactly, some fans helped the BBC to restaure in full colour a surviving black and white copy serial of the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who titled "The Mind of Evil".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind_of_Evil#Commercial_releases
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mind_of_Evil_(TV_story)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riML7zVMaqo

[oscar]

"The Last Picture Show" was deliberately filmed in black and white rather than color (in the early 1970s, when most films were done in color). The director originally wanted to paint an entire town gray, for a bleak depiction of a dying town, but was persuaded to shoot in black and white for a similar effect.

That film was a classic. Its sequel, Texasville, was shot in color. It sucked.

[nexus73]

"The Last Picture Show" was deliberately filmed in black and white rather than color (in the early 1970s, when most films were done in color). The director originally wanted to paint an entire town gray, for a bleak depiction of a dying town, but was persuaded to shoot in black and white for a similar effect.

That film was a classic. Its sequel, Texasville, was shot in color. It sucked.

It has been decades since I saw "The Last Picture Show".  B&W sure made an impact in the movie's depiction of a down and out Texas town.  It painted such a discouraging picture of the Longhorn State.

"The Longest Day" was the last Hollywood WWII epic which was made in B&W.  Color would have been better for that one.

Rick

[Rothman]

The Last Picture Show was just about the boobs.