Just had to post this awesome video from back in the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTRANIIntKo
While I too am totally opposed to colorization, appreciate (some) old black-and-white movies and think that a very few contemporary ones (The Good German, The Mist) should definitely be in grayscale, I can't say I'm as big a fan of b&w as these fine critics are. But their arguments concerning The Lady Vanishes, Notorious and the Marx Brothers movies are surely unanswerable.
In short, a fun and illuminating clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTRANIIntKo
While I too am totally opposed to colorization, appreciate (some) old black-and-white movies and think that a very few contemporary ones (The Good German, The Mist) should definitely be in grayscale, I can't say I'm as big a fan of b&w as these fine critics are. But their arguments concerning The Lady Vanishes, Notorious and the Marx Brothers movies are surely unanswerable.
In short, a fun and illuminating clip.
