How does /tv/ feel about the colorization of movies that were filmed in black and white?
makes them watchable
>>69997397
Go watch La Heine, Raging Bull, Psycho, and Manhattan you dumb piece of plebeian shit
>>69997733
relax, friend
>>69997397
underage b&
>>69997828
(You)
I think it's a bad idea. The films that were shot in black and white were designed to be shot in black in white. Plus you lose a good amount of detail and definition from colorizing the frames.
>>69997378
Does it even look good?
Shooting modern movies in B&W is generally worthless.
Yes.
>>69997378
horrible, it never looks right
I tried watching It's a Wonderful Life in color and I couldn't even make it halfway, just offensive to the eyes
>>69997733
but those are the most plebeian b&w films.
>>69997378
If something is not done now to clearly state the moral rights of artists, current and future technologies will alter, mutilate, and destroy for future generations the subtle human truths and highest human feeling that talented individuals within our society have created.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society.
These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with “fresher faces,” or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved.
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
There is nothing to stop American films, records, books, and paintings from being sold to a foreign entity or egotistical gangsters and having them change our cultural heritage to suit their personal taste.
>>69998951
>george lucas
Generally looks shitty, but can be ok for stuff like comedies (Three Stooges) and b-movie schlock
Still prefer B&W desu.
>>69997733
>La Haine
Overrated
>Ragin Bull
Decent
>Psycho
Completely overrated and aged
>Manhattan
Booooooooooooooring
>>69997378
Just don't do the noir movies and I'm ok with it.
>>69998951
>>69999040
Essential "Do as I say, not as I do"-core
I saw Its A Wonderful Life in black and white and in color.
Watching it in color I noticed small details I hadn't. Things in the background popped more. It also ruined some effects, like the rear view projection of George's brother fighting in World War II and when they used a soft lens filter on a close up of Mary.
If there really are people out there who refuse to watch old movies just because they're in black and white, and these colorized edits can get one pleb to watch a good film, I guess it's okay then.
There is no point, it adds next to nothing and sometimes the black and white is done intentionally and it would detract from that.
>>69999065
>>Psycho
>Completely overrated and aged
Kek
It looks bad, sure. But are there any noticeable examples where the colourised version is more popular or distributed than the uncoloured ones?
It's not really an issue. It's not like Star Wars. The originals still exist and are more popular because common sense prevails.
Wait I think the masters of cinema Nosferatu has like... Colour filters? But maybe the movie was always supposed to. I can't imagine MOC doing that for fun.
I kinda like the colorized Lucy
>>69999416
>Wait I think the masters of cinema Nosferatu has like... Colour filters? But maybe the movie was always supposed to. I can't imagine MOC doing that for fun.
It was, most early B&W films had this kind of coloring to indicate night/day transitions and stuff like that
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