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B&W To Colour

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Hey guys

I don’t know if this is the right forum to post, but I’ll try! Just downloaded Jailhouse Rock for my grandmother. Great film! However, it is black and white. What I am wondering is, with technology as good as it is these days, is there a converter or a way to colourise the film with a filter within an encoder?

I would love to be able to give her a colourised version!

Thanks

Jamie


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No. How would a filter know what colours should go where? I think you should leave it the way the director intended.
 
Many times you can find classic films in both BW and color just FYI.
 
Flymo said:
No. How would a filter know what colours should go where? I think you should leave it the way the director intended.
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There are plenty of apps that can colourise a photo. It is possible.


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I can't say I know of any "home" app to do this - but it is clearly possible. Witness what Peter Jackson did with the archive films used in "They Shall Not Grow Old". I believe that the process used there was not a simple application as per the photo tool (example above), but rather that a human chooses what colours to apply to various elements in certain frames - based on either colour photos, physical artefacts (eg uniforms in museums) or other records of the time. Then a program uses some sophisticated motion tracking to apply the same colour to the equivalent elements (even if moved) in subsequent frames.
 
There are tools available to colorize B&W video.
You can read about one of it on GitHub
Code: 
 https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify


Also Vegas Studio Pro offers to colorize B&W video.
Code: 
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/vegas-pro/#productMenu
Code: 
Built into the core of VEGAS Pro, hardware-accelerated AI assists creativity and fast editing.
-Colorization to bring black & white scenes to life
 
Check out a company called Legend Films they specialize in colorizinf B&W Movies. Maybe they did this movie.

https://legendfilms.com/colorizationWhy.html


To the critics, I hate B&W and would take a colorized version any time over a B&W. I guess you guys would also rather Mono to Stereo or higher. To each his own stop being so critical!
 
MCalca1706 said:
Check out a company called Legend Films they specialize in colorizinf B&W Movies. Maybe they did this movie.

https://legendfilms.com/colorizationWhy.html


To the critics, I hate B&W and would take a colorized version any time over a B&W. I guess you guys would also rather Mono to Stereo or higher. To each his own stop being so critical!
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Thank you!


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Also, "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939) cleverly used both Black & White, along with color to tell Dorothy's story, and it was very effective.
 
Wheatley said:
The Wizard of Oz was the first movie to be filmed in color using Technicolor.
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Incorrect.

The opening and closing scenes of the movie were filmed in black & white and colored in a sepia tone process.

Also, Robin Hood with Errol Flynn came out a year earlier from Warner Brothers, and it's totally in Technicolor.
 
I hate butt in but
The Toll of the Sea, which debuted on November 26, 1922, used Process 2 and was the first general-release film in Technicolor. Almost 100 years ago.
 
RedFox 1 said:
I hate butt in but
The Toll of the Sea, which debuted on November 26, 1922, used Process 2 and was the first general-release film in Technicolor. Almost 100 years ago.
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According to Wikipedia: The Gulf Between (1917) was the first Technicolor film and was released 13 September 1917. About 105 years ago.
 
Flymo said:
According to Wikipedia: The Gulf Between (1917) was the first Technicolor film and was released 13 September 1917. About 105 years ago.
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The problem there is I could go edit it right now to make it say "Beavis and Butthead do America" was the first color film (Yes I am being super silly). It's just very untrustworthy.
 
whatever_gong82 said:
Incorrect.

The opening and closing scenes of the movie were filmed in black & white and colored in a sepia tone process.

Also, Robin Hood with Errol Flynn came out a year earlier from Warner Brothers, and it's totally in Technicolor.
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I knew I would start an argument. I quoted that from google but they contradicted themselves. There was three different answers on google!
 
DQ said:
The problem there is I could go edit it right now to make it say "Beavis and Butthead do America" was the first color film (Yes I am being super silly). It's just very untrustworthy.
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What's wrong with Beavis and Butthead do America.:LOL::LOL: I don't use Wikipedia.
 
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