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I made a flip comment about Turner, (Ted, not William), and I feel that I should explain myself a bit further.
Even though Panchromatic film became standard towards the end of the Silent Era, the fact remains that makeup, sets, and especially clothing were chosen for how they would project in black and white, leaving the audience to fill the colors in on their own. The truth is, if a color camera was used along with the standard monochromatic ones, the projected results would be quite bizarre.
The Turner colorization didn't even attempt to reproduce the colors in the scenes that were shot; it just attempted to substitute one colorist's imagination for all those imaginations that the audience already possessed.
One really great joke on this theme is the cover of a tape or DVD that many, if not most of you, own.
Just look at the cover of "Young Frankenstein", and see what the joke was, and why it was made.
Now as to Ansel Adams... most people have this image of some bearded recluse hiking Yosemite for days just trying to get that perfect shot in a mammoth plate camera. That isn't even close to the truth. That reclusive photographer was Muybridge.
Adams was a witty urbane man, who according to an Arts Network snippet, was even more interested in music; but photography paid the bills. His famous "Moonrise" shot was accidental; he didn't plan for it at all. Adams loved playing around with film. Even color film. Even color Polaroid film. He was an early advocate for Polaroids, and as a story goes, the technique of physically manipulating the SX70 shot for effect while it was developing was discovered by him, and not Warhol.
To get back to the OP, the one shot that really hooked me was the storefront. It wasn't just the colors. It takes a fair amount of research to get the colors of all that advertising just right, and to _fade_ those colors just right, to make it believably evocative of the period.
And as for Audrey Hepburn... yum. Just... yum.
There is one very minor aspect of colorization, up of which I will not put. Just do a google search of Samuel Beckett portrait. That classic face, every line and pore lovingly preserved in pure Silver Nitrate, doesn't belong in a colorful, short attention span, world.
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Eustace, you are too funny! :ROTFL::thumbsup:
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