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Post by Kelvin Walker on Feb 20, 2020 23:41:00 GMT
I found a Facebook group created on the 8th February 2020, which shows classic music performances transferred from Black and White to Colour. Acts so far added are as follows: The Who, The High Numbers , The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Slade, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Zombies, Elvis Presley, The Ronettes, Bo Diddley, The Temptations. Its look excellent and it seems more performances will be added in due course. www.facebook.com/pg/Colouring-The-Past-100373351546415/videos/?ref=page_internal |
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Post by petercheck on Feb 21, 2020 8:16:55 GMT
I haven't watched any of them, but just seeing the thumbnails tells me I don't need to. As I've pointed out elsewhere, I'm not against colourization if there are accurate reference points (i.e. colour photos of The Beatles performing 'All You Need Is Love'), but otherwise it is just the new "reprocessed stereo" that ruined so many mono recordings in the late '60s and '70s. Just my opinion...
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Post by marjorysmith on Feb 21, 2020 9:31:17 GMT
They're well done but I tend to agree with Peter. The colouring is not necessary and it distorts the past.
Chopping films in order to convert 4:3 to 16:9 is another thing I don't approve of.
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Feb 21, 2020 20:46:34 GMT
Well there's an even newer reason to hate these botched clips. The audio!! It's brain melting, with a mixture of mainly sped up backing but weirdly some element of 'robot running out of power' on the vocals??!! Or just go straight to the 'Tin soldier' hatchet job to see no syncing whatsoever. Horrid.
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Post by petercheck on Aug 4, 2020 17:02:12 GMT
Although it still doesn't quite look right, here's a new colourized video that is an improvement on the above examples imo.
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Post by Colin Anderton on Aug 5, 2020 8:34:23 GMT
While the Beatles video particularly is amazingly well done, and the technology is incredible, I also like the past being presented as it was at the time.
If it's monochrome originally, leave it alone. That goes for 4x3 shape as well.
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Post by robertreinstein on Aug 5, 2020 11:27:44 GMT
I hate colorizing. The fleshtones are always terrible.
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Post by ajsmith on Aug 5, 2020 15:01:42 GMT
The ‘I Feel Fine’ video has the advantage of taking place on a stark mostly monochrome set, and the fact there are colour reference photos for every element seen in it. Still the flesh tones aren’t convincing though.
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Post by Kev Hunter on Aug 5, 2020 16:36:46 GMT
Personally - and that's all opinions can ever be - I find the colourised versions are easier on the eye, as watching anything of any duration in monochrome is very unlike our real life view. I think the two versions can exist side-by-side with no issues: you pays yer money and takes yer choc ice, as I'm sure Barry Norman never said.
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Post by bobbooker on Aug 5, 2020 17:28:03 GMT
The I Feel Fine work is pretty good but the few I looked at on the Facebook link were terrible - very much the Tesco Value of colorization there I'd say.
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Post by richardwoods on Aug 5, 2020 18:00:38 GMT
Although it still doesn't quite look right, here's a new colourized video that is an improvement on the above examples imo. Cool!! |
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