TopBilled Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 two hundred forty-fifth category B&W classics that were colorized IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE...there have been four colorized versions-- the most recent was in 2007. THE LITTLEST REBEL...many of Shirley Temple's black-and-white films at Fox have been colorized. I Love Lucy...yes, we can now see Vitameatavegamin in color. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlewis Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 One of Shirley's, THE LITTLE COLONEL, had a final couple minutes in Technicolor at the end so it was not necessary to do the whole thing. I often wondered back in the 1980s when there was this obsession to colorize everything if a new version of THE WIZARD OF OZ would remove all of the sepia-tone scenes in Kansas in order to be 100% color regardless of all of the "Over the Rainbow" singing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshaKatz Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 The two movies that always come to mind for me are: Scrooge (1951) - Starring the great Alastair Sim, it is one of my favorite movies, no matter the season. It was released in Great Britain under it's original title "Scrooge" and released in the United States as "A Christmas Carol". A colorized version was released in 1989 and many DVD's include the colorized version as an extra. It's my absolute favorite movie version of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" and to me it's incredible from Sim's portrayal of Scrooge to Mervyn Johns's Bob Cratchet to Michael Hordern's Jacob Marley and of course Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber. The black-and-white film is far superior, and although I have the DVD which includes the colorized version as an extra, I rarely ever watch it, and go straight to the black-and-white original. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)- This is a classic film of the first order starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood. In 1985 it became one of the first black-and-white films to be colorized. This is one of my favorite movies and I really dislike the colorized version. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 A lot of Laurel and Hardy movies have been colourized and very badly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 There's a company called Legend Films that has colorized a lot of classic films in the 2000s. As controversial as the practice was by Turner in the 80s and early 90s, it obviously was profitable and explains why colorizing still occurs. And if something like IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE has had four colorized versions, would it indicate whether technological advances have improved the process..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 42nd Street--I remember renting the colorized version of this movie on video (yes, I said video) when I was a teenager, which was a very, very long time ago. The reason I remember it was because I saw the pants that Ginger Rogers wore change color three times. It was during the rehearsal scene when Ruby Keeler fainted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulll Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 I Love Lucy was the first thing that popped into my head. Casablanca (1942) was colorized in 1988, I've never seen the colorized version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIPPER Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 "DARK VICTORY" (1939).....colorized in 1987 by Turner. "YANKEE DOODLE DANDY" (1942).....colorized in the 1986 by Turner. I've seen both B&W and colorized versions of both and prefer the B&W versions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 Sometimes the titles are changed. When THE GREAT RUPERT was colorized, it was renamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Lots of the old TV shows got colorized like the early BEWITCHED episodes When I bought MY MAN GODFREY on DVD I was annoyed that it had a colorized version on it. Sheesh! Like it's gonna be funnier in color. Colorization drives me crazy for many reasons: -the colorization flattens and blurs the picture so we lose all the texture -it's a technician and not a designer picking the colors, so you get weird choices -it's another way of dumbing things down for idiots--what was wrong with B&W? -we can ALL tell it's been colorized because everything has a gray tint ......................okay, I better stop 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 Lots of the old TV shows got colorized like the early BEWITCHED episodes When I bought MY MAN GODFREY on DVD I was annoyed that it had a colorized version on it. Sheesh! Like it's gonna be funnier in color. Colorization drives me crazy for many reasons: -the colorization flattens and blurs the picture so we lose all the texture -it's a technician and not a designer picking the colors, so you get weird choices -it's another way of dumbing things down for idiots--what was wrong with B&W? -we can ALL tell it's been colorized because everything has a gray tint Excellent points. The colorized version of GODFREY is on Hulu, and I watched it not long ago. I didn't mind it, though some scenes looked a bit strange. It seems crisper/sharper in black-and-white. It was remade in the 50s with June Allyson, and was filmed in Technicolor that time. Another colorized film on Hulu is BEYOND TOMORROW, a holiday story with Richard Carlson, Jean Parker and Charles Winninger. It has been renamed BEYOND CHRISTMAS. I preferred it in color. All the B&W broadcasts I've seen aired (from a public domain print) on TCM are awful. But the colorized print is nicely cleaned up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 two hundred forty-sixth category Racing films THE CROWD ROARS GRAND PRIX DAYS OF THUNDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBeacon Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Hope you don't mind some horse races too: "A Day at the Races" "Charlie Chan at the Race Track" "Shadow of the Thin Man" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 Hope you don't mind some horse races too: "A Day at the Races" "Charlie Chan at the Race Track" "Shadow of the Thin Man" That's a great idea...like how you are 'stretching' the category to fit other films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBeacon Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 And for the mechanized type: "Death Race 2000" "Le Mans" "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 And for the mechanized type: "Death Race 2000" "Le Mans" "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" Have to admit TALLADEGA NIGHTS is a guilty pleasure... Going back to the horse racing angle, we could add the SEA BISCUIT movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gorman Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 GUMBALL RALLY, The (1976) CANNONBALL (1976) CANNONBALL RUN, The (1981) "Cannonball Run 2" is ostensibly about a car race, but having seen it I recollect no one wins the race and the racers go to rescue the sheik (Jamie Farr) from the clutches of Telly Savalas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 GUMBALL RALLY, The (1976) CANNONBALL (1976) CANNONBALL RUN, The (1981) "Cannonball Run 2" is ostensibly about a car race, but having seen it I recollect no one wins the race and the racers go to rescue the sheik (Jamie Farr) from the clutches of Telly Savalas. Some plots change half-way through, don't they..? Yesterday I watched RONIN-- which starts as an urban crime drama with Robert DeNiro. But after thirty or forty minutes, it becomes more about get-away cars, racing through the European countryside, etc. I love the high-speed chases in it. But I did wonder what type of story director John Frankenheimer was trying to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBeacon Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Have to admit TALLADEGA NIGHTS is a guilty pleasure... Going back to the horse racing angle, we could add the SEA BISCUIT movies. The scene at the dinner table with the kids and then Bobby saying grace always make me laugh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 The scene at the dinner table with the kids and then Bobby saying grace always make me laugh. Yes...that's the scene I love. It's like something out of a Saturday Night Live skit. In terms of other racing films, how about those Disney movies with Herbie. Especially the time he went to Monte Carlo: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 How about a couple of racing movies by Steve Tesich that rely on human power rather than horsepower? Breaking Away (1979) American Flyers (1986) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBeacon Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 How about a couple of racing movies by Steve Tesich that rely on human power rather than horsepower? Breaking Away (1979) American Flyers (1986) Great stuff so add "Chariots of Fire" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 The Great Race starring Lemmon, Falk, Curtis, Wood etc. The Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 How about a couple of racing movies by Steve Tesich that rely on human power rather than horsepower? Breaking Away (1979) American Flyers (1986) Never would have thought of those...and yes, they certainly are racing films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshaKatz Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Walk, Don't Run Prefontaine Personal Best Swimming Upstream Downhill Racer A Yank At Oxford (Rowing Racing) Jim Thorpe - All American Biker Boyz The World's Fastest Indian Casey's Shadow Seabiscuit (2003) Glory (1956) April Love (trotters racing) The Great Dan Patch National Velvet Bite The Bullet Winning The Jericho Mile 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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