From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Colorization
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:45:56 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Sep 11, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> As an example of this kind of disrespect, Ted Turner defended
> "colorizing" classic movies ("Topper" is the classic Horrible Example)
> on the basis that kids nowadays couldn't interperet black and white
> pictures.  Unless they were colorized so that kids could "see" them
> properly, they'd be lost.
>

Didn't Turner colorize the first twenty minutes of The Wizard of Oz?
And Casablanca is the classic horrible example.

Anyone who can't deal with 1960s writers having a 1960s viewpoint
shouldn't be reading the stories anyway.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow