Comments by "" (@Jared_Wignall) on "A Rebuttal to the Fake "Colourization Controversy" About Upscaling Historical Film" video.

  1. As a film fan, I don’t see a problem with cleaning up, fixing and overall making old films look better than they have ever looked before, particularly if we now have machines doing this while people standby to make sure all goes well with this process. Obviously, when it comes to colorizing black and white films, yes the color may not be 100% accurate, but it may look closer to what the sets and clothes looked like when they were actually shooting the film. Perhaps there are moments in the script or some sort of log that mentions specific colors regarding the clothes people were wearing or scenery. Yes, it’s important to preserve the films as they are, though as time has gone on, restoring films has gotten a lot easier with technology with people around to help correct whenever things are in need of fixing so the machine will learn to be better at such things. I know there are people against colorizing black and white films and I defiantly get it. Many of the early examples of this weren’t very good because the colors looked very bad, but as time has gone on, colorization of films has gotten better. There is a series called WWII in Color and it shows footage of WWII that has been colorized so we can now see what things probably looked like from the people involved in the war, especially since some soldiers were interviewed. I’m sure they were able to be of some help regarding what things looked like at the time.
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