Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 04:29:09 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Colorization
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Eric Jablow wrote:

> 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.

He (or somebody) talked about doing it.  I don't think he actually
carried through on the threat.

"Topper" was, IIRC, the first "colorized" movie to be released.  It
provides a spectacular example of why scientists use "false color" to
bring out detail in photos -- the "outdoor" stage sets (which look just
fine in B&W) are comically fake.

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

Yup.  They'll also have trouble with non- SF fiction, history, etc.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."