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Speaker 1: Brain with today's question. How do they color old black
Speaker 1: and white movies? Most of the classic black and white
Speaker 1: movies have been colorized, mainly so that they can be
Speaker 1: shown on television and color. It turns out that the
Speaker 1: process used to add the color is extremely tedious. Someone
Speaker 1: has to work on the movie frame by frame, adding
Speaker 1: the colors one at a time to each part of
Speaker 1: an individual frame. To speed up the process, the coloring
Speaker 1: is done on a computer using a digital version of
Speaker 1: the movie. The film is scanned into the computer and
Speaker 1: the coloring artists can view the movie one frame at
Speaker 1: a time on the computer screen. The artist draws the
Speaker 1: outline for each color area and the computer fills it
Speaker 1: in the original black and white film holds all the
Speaker 1: brightness information, so the artists can paint large areas with
Speaker 1: a single color and let the original film handle the
Speaker 1: brightness gradients. This means that the artist might only have
Speaker 1: to add ten or so actual color areas to a
Speaker 1: scene to speed up the process even more. Interpretation is
Speaker 1: common from frame to frame. There's normally very little variation
Speaker 1: in the position of objects and actors. Therefore, the artist
Speaker 1: might manually color every tenth frame and let the computer
Speaker 1: fill in the frames in between. Do you have any
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