Color version?
I saw a clip of this movie in color. Not sure of the source now.
Does anybody know if the color version is available?
That must be a "colorized" version. THAHN was shot in B&W.
Hopefully I'll never get to see the colorized version of this movie. That would be a dreadful experience.
I just saw the colorized version on TV. It reminds me of those typical fifties postcards. No matter if you like it or not, the question remains : who does this coloring ? And on whose request ? Must be one hell of a job, even if it's done by computer. I also remember seeing old Laurel & Hardy short movies being colored later, and not only was it done in a very clumsy way, they also forgot spots here and there.
If you should run into a colorized version of this movie on TV and find it a dreadful experience, remember you can always switch the set to B&W, but not the other way around.
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When colorization technology became available Ted Turner fell for it in a big way. He pretty much colorized every movie he could lay his hands on. For a while it was getting tough to see one of the classic old movies in the original black and white.
Thankfully the colorizing craze died a much deserved death.
If you should run into a colorized version of this movie on TV and find it a dreadful experience, remember you can always switch the set to B&W, but not the other way around.
Wrong.
De-saturating the colors of a colorized movie does NOT get you back to the original unaltered B&W image.
Keeping all of the brightness values unchanged during the colorization process is not a priority for the people who do it. Different objects that are rendered in different colors tend to have their relative brightnesses changed. Items in shadows tend to be brightened. Items in really bright areas tend to be darkened. Contrast gets reduced.
All of that is assuming that they get everything right. They don't always. As one example, I've seen colorized movies where the (too) red lips of a man with a grey beard tended to "float" around in the white-ish field of the lower half of his face as he moved his head around (as in looking back and forth at various speakers in a multi-person scene). That odd, out of place blob will still be floating around in the character's beard after you turn down the color settings.
Plus, of course, talking about the above issues begs the question of whether I want to be routinely screwing around with the color settings on my TV. I don't. share