... should I have posted to 'Breaking news'?
Posted on 08/06/2004 1:43:55 PM PDT by evets
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will launch a new film-coloring process with the Aug. 10 release of two Three Stooges DVDs.
The goal of this "color and B&W" system is to introduce classic black-and-white films to younger generations of viewers.
Viewers will be able to see the difference with another new feature being introduced with these titles. The Three Stooges: Goofs on the Loose and The Three Stooges: Stooged and Confoosed also offer CTHE's ChromaChoice option, new formatting that allows a viewer to use a DVD remote to toggle between the film's original black-and-white version and its colorized edition.
Prebook is July 8. The DVDs are priced at $24.95 each; $44.95 in a two-pack.
"This highly refined coloring process brings incredible new life to black-and-white classics and has the potential to win over a more contemporary audience for these films," said Lexine Wong, CTHE's executive VP worldwide marketing.
Helping the restoration process of the titles' masters, Columbia Pictures archives had many of the films' original production elements such as props and cloth swatches available for reference.
Goofs on the Loose contains Men in Black (1934), The Sitter Downers (1937), Punch Drunks (1934) and Playing the Ponies (1937). Stooges and Confoosed includes Violent is the Word for Curly (1938), You Nazty Spy (1940) and No Census, No Feeling (1940).
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
How awful! If only TVs had a color control...
You don't tug on Superman's cape.
You don't spit into the wind.
You don't pull the mask off the ol'Lone Ranger.
And you don't colorize the Stooges or the Marx Brothers.
This part's important...
This sounds like a good plan to me! You can switch between B/W and color on the fly.
Is outrage
The only good thing about colorization is that the print has to to be restored to a very high quality before it can be colorized, and that's good for those of us who would prefer to see high-quality prints in the original black-and-white...
All Curlys (pre 46) and you can turn off the crayons.
No, NO, NO, NO!!
Q. In what episode did all four of the boys (Larry, Moe, Curly amd Shemp) appear?
A. In the Stooges' 100th short, called "Hold That Lion," a post-stroke, partially-paralyzed Curly played a cameo part of a sleeping train passenger with a clothespin on his nose. When Moe would remove the clothespin, Curly would start snoring the same way he did when he was a Stooge. (in white font)
History Channel just did a series "WWI in Color". They colorized hours of original footage. While sceptical at first, I came to realize that it was my PERCEPTION that was distorted. What the soldiers saw and experienced was in fact in color, and not the shades of grey I had learned to expect.
For the purists, I would say that any film made AFTER color became common place it probably would violate the directors vision. I doubt if the Stooges would have walked away from color if it had been available in the 30's.
But did they correct the colors?
When shooting in black and white, objects are chosen based how they will look in black and white, obviously. But that means that the colors might not be "right" when you colorize. So a cop might be dressed in a green uniform, a taxicab might be powder blue and the American flag might be orange and purple.
This is why colorizing films is just plain a bad idea. The filmmakers never intended it to be seen that way, and made their choices accordingly.
I did not know that.</johnnycarson>
In the last few months a local PBS channel showed old John Wayne westerns, made in the early 30s (pre - John Ford) when he was churning them out by the dozen. Just about the only thing that made them watchable, actually, was colorization.
Actually, no. This is the right way to do this. You get to choose. If it were only offered in a colorized version then I would join in your chorus of boos (or you chorus of booze, whichever you prefer) ;^>
It looks like the DVD has both the colored and uncolored versions. Just like some have the latterbox and full screen editions.
Sacrilege!
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