thrush@spock.UUCP (Patricia White '88 cc) (05/09/85)
As I stated before, computer coloring is a low quality substitute for filming with a coloring process such as Technicolor. It colors by dots, like those you might see when you look at a tv set close-up. When they color these dots by computer something happens to the outlines of the dots. The "background" B&W sort of shows through. Hand tinting takes forever to do and, although I've never seen any film with hand tint, there probably would be tinters' mistakes that just are barely noticeable to the eye, but noticeable enough to say that something was a bit odd about hte color. I believe that hand tinting would get better color tints than a computer would but I still believe that a classic B&W film such as Casablanca should stay in B&W. Can you imagine the final scene in color ? B&W was perfect for the setting. Color would ruin that. I will try to see it when it is released with color. Although I won't expect too much, who knows ... I might be surprised with the (possible) success of hand tinting. "What do we do in the meantime -- feed him some aspirin ? " (You guess what movie that's from. One hint, Universal released it.) Patricia White