Black And White Films In Colour

[lankeela]

When you see these old black and white films now in colour how do they do that? Is it actually the original colour brought to life or is it superimposed somehow?

[ToraToraTora]

these days it's done digitally.

[chelle7272]

It used to be manually painted on to the black and white film cells, now it done by computer

[Old_Geezer]

They guess the colours. If they have a colour photograph to go by, it obviously helps.

[brainiac]

Interesting article about how Peter Jackson did it for They Shall Not Grow Old:

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-11/they-shall-not-grow-old-peter-jackson-world-war-one-movie-how-was-it-made/

[Peter Pedant]

well ther eis this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_colorization#:~:text=With%20computer%20technology%2C%20studios%20were,in%201990).

the tech has got better
get a computer and smooth out the black and white jerky bits
and by averaging get it up to industry standard 24 frames /s.

I cant think how you get from a black and white shadow face to a colour one. And if it looks like Trump you say well the Tommy is meant to look like that

Khaki - you can do an outline and the computer will follow it thro successive frames. The problem was getting the colour wrong in the first place