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Little Rascals In Color

Markxxx

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These shorts have just begun airing on Sundays on WWME-CA Channel 23 in Chicago. The station is showing a colorized version of them.

Now I am one who never really cared about colorized versions or not. I watch the colorized version of Gilligan's Island and such and it never bothered me, but for some reason seeing a colorized version of The Little Rascals just lost a lot of "the effect" (for lack of a better word) for me.

Perhaps because B&W was more suited to the feel of the 30s depression?

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> These shorts have just begun airing on Sundays on WWME-CA
> Channel 23 in Chicago. The station is showing a colorized
> version of them.
>
> Now I am one who never really cared about colorized versions
> or not. I watch the colorized version of Gilligan's Island
> and such and it never bothered me, but for some reason
> seeing a colorized version of The Little Rascals just lost a
> lot of "the effect" (for lack of a better word) for me.
>
> Perhaps because B&W was more suited to the feel of the 30s
> depression?
>
> Anyone else seen the colorized version of The Little
> Rascals?


No.

And please let me know when the episodes air, so I can avoid them :).

Colorizing the "Little Rascals" or "Our Gang" as the shorts were known then is like telling Superman he can't fly.
 
> > These shorts have just begun airing on Sundays on WWME-CA
> > Channel 23 in Chicago. The station is showing a colorized
> > version of them.
> >
> > Now I am one who never really cared about colorized
> versions
> > or not. I watch the colorized version of Gilligan's Island
>
> > and such and it never bothered me, but for some reason
> > seeing a colorized version of The Little Rascals just lost
> a
> > lot of "the effect" (for lack of a better word) for me.
> >
> > Perhaps because B&W was more suited to the feel of the 30s
>
> > depression?
> >
> > Anyone else seen the colorized version of The Little
> > Rascals?
>
>
> No.
>
> And please let me know when the episodes air, so I can avoid
> them :).
>
> Colorizing the "Little Rascals" or "Our Gang" as the shorts
> were known then is like telling Superman he can't fly.
>

I seem to remember seeing a TV show segment on the colorization of the Laurel and Hardy short "The Music Box", and the parties responsible talking about it as if it was the greatest idea since sliced bread. This was around the height of the colorization craze. I think they even colorized "Casablanca", and Ted Turner was talking about colorizing the first and last five minutes of "The Wizard Of Oz".

As a result, we have a bunch of colorized material that nobody wants to see. In the meantime, nobody seems to want to colorize the black and white episodes of "The Goodies" (the ones that only exist as 16mm black and white telerecordings).
 
> In the meantime, nobody seems to want
> to colorize the black and white episodes of "The Goodies"
> (the ones that only exist as 16mm black and white
> telerecordings).
>
Has anyone even attempted to colorise B&W videotape or kinnies? It seems all B&W material that was colorised were movies or TV shows that were shot directly on film.
 
> > In the meantime, nobody seems to want
> > to colorize the black and white episodes of "The Goodies"
> > (the ones that only exist as 16mm black and white
> > telerecordings).
> >
> Has anyone even attempted to colorise B&W videotape or
> kinnies? It seems all B&W material that was colorised were
> movies or TV shows that were shot directly on film.
>

Well, there was "The Daemons" re-colorization done by the Doctor Who Restoration Team, which if memory serves was done with 16mm kinescopes and an off-air Betamax videotape (used to recover the color information). I'm not completely familiar with all the nuances of this re-colorization technique, which in any case is discussed in more detail at:

http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/colouris.htm
 
Re: Little Rascals/Gilligan's Island In Color

> Now I am one who never really cared about colorized versions
> or not. I watch the colorized version of Gilligan's Island
> and such and it never bothered me, but for some reason
> seeing a colorized version of The Little Rascals just lost a
> lot of "the effect" (for lack of a better word) for me.
>
> Anyone else seen the colorized version of The Little
> Rascals?

When they showed the first season of Gilligan's Island in color for the first time in the early 90's,I did not like it at all. The colors were really bad on the screen which made everybody from Gilligan to the Professor look like ghosts. I liked the first season of Gilligan's Island in Black and White all the way since the 70's when I first started watching.

As for the Little Rascals in color,I'm not going to watch it at all. It is just liked them colorizing the first 10 minutes and the last 5 minutes of The Wizard Of Oz. It's a no go for me.
 
I wonder how the public would react if the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night were colorized. To me it would be sacrilege.

I've seen both the B&W and colorized versions of The Bells of St. Mary's and prefere the former. (And IMO no nun ever was ever cuter than Ingrid Bergman in that particular flick, but that's another thread. :))

ixnay
 
Re: Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie Colorized Versions

> As with many people,I prefer the black and white episodes from the 1st 2 seasons of Bewitched and the black and white episodes of I Dream Of Jeannie from the 1st season much better than I do the colorized versions because that's what they first watched in syndication when both shows came to syndication and also when Bewitched reruns aired in daytime on ABC from 1968 to 1973.
 
Re: Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie Colorized Versions

> > As with many people,I prefer the black and white episodes
> from the 1st 2 seasons of Bewitched and the black and white
> episodes of I Dream Of Jeannie from the 1st season much
> better than I do the colorized versions because that's what
> they first watched in syndication when both shows came to
> syndication and also when Bewitched reruns aired in daytime
> on ABC from 1968 to 1973.
>

A few years ago, Nick At Nite used to show "Bewitched" and "I Dream Of Jeannie" reruns ad infinitum. The older episodes were always shown in black and white and as far as I know nobody complained. I saw a few episodes of the colorized first season of "Gilligan's Island" about 10 years ago and it didn't do anything for me - not that "Gilligan's Island" is particularly edifying anyway.

My take on colorization is that there's a lot of British TV programs that were originally aired in color yet which have many episodes that only exist in the archives in black and white format, and those episodes are good candidates for colorization. I'm talking generally about material produced from 1970 to 1975, including "Timeslip", "Doctor Who", and "The Goodies". And while we're at, we might as well include ITV programs which were meant to be made in color but were black and white because of the technicians' strike in 1971 (e.g. "Upstairs, Downstairs"). It's unlikely that this will ever happen because of the limited commercial potential of this material, but it seems like it might be a good idea to start with material that was originally in color.
 
Re: Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie Colorized Versions

> > As with many people,I prefer the black and white episodes
> from the 1st 2 seasons of Bewitched and the black and white
> episodes of I Dream Of Jeannie from the 1st season much
> better than I do the colorized versions because that's what
> they first watched in syndication when both shows came to
> syndication and also when Bewitched reruns aired in daytime
> on ABC from 1968 to 1973.
>
In the early days of daily Bewitched reruns on ABC, they actually "decolorised" them -- color episodes were actually fed to stations in black and white.
 
> I wonder how the public would react if the Beatles' A Hard
> Day's Night were colorized. To me it would be sacrilege.
>
> I've seen both the B&W and colorized versions of The Bells
> of St. Mary's and prefere the former. (And IMO no nun ever
> was ever cuter than Ingrid Bergman in that particular flick,
> but that's another thread. :))
>
> ixnay
>

I think I remember reading that colorization was used on the first attempt to restore episodes of MASH in the late 80's or early 90's. I thought that restoring color to older color shows made sense as long as it was done right. Of course more modern digital restoration methods are probably better for that purpose now.
 
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