george lucas began the process of computer colorization of old black and white movies.
george lucas began the process of computer colorization of old black and white movies.
who began the process of computer colorization of old black and white movies?
george lucas
in 1983, hal roach studios became one of the first studios to venture into the business of computerized film colorization. buying a 50 percent interest in wilson markle's colorization, inc., it began creating digitally colored versions of some of its films. roach's "topper" (1937), followed by "way out west" (1937), became the first black-and-white films to be redistributed in color using the digital colorization process, leading to controversy. defenders of the process noted that it would allow black-and-white films to have new audiences of people who were not used to the format. detractors complained (among other reasons) that the process was crude and claimed that even if it were refined, it would not take into account lighting compositions chosen for black-and-white photography which would not necessarily be as effective in color. figures opposed to the process included roger ebert, james stewart, john huston, george lucas and woody allen.
film colorization
the story begins with donald comparing himself to fred astaire. donald believes he dances as well as fred and throughout the novel considers himself the real "chinese fred astaire" (91). donald immerses himself in old black-and-white movies, and especially admires fred astaire and ginger rogers films. he envies the way "everyone" adores fred when he dances. donald wishes he could "live the late-night life in old black-and-white movies and talk with his feet like fred astaire, and smile fred astaire's sweet lemonade smile" (1).
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