Colour Restoration

[Donald4564]

An interesting remark from a fellow silent film traveller prompts this
question:

When films are restored and the original two-strip Technicolor colour
sequences are missing - would it be a huge sin to utilise the
colourisation process to re-make the colour sequences utilising the
monochromatic footage that replaces the original footage?

I think it's an interesting point for debate.

Regards
Donald BInks

[William Hooper]

I think Kevin Brownlow used the colorization process to re-create a
color version of a scene which could be found only in b&w in his
restoration of _Phantom of the Opera_. As I recall, no real
guesswork was needed to assign the correct colors, as it was a
subsequent shot with a set and characters that were in a previous
scene, which did still exist in color. It actually looked a little
better than the "real" color scenes, but in that case I think it was a
very good decision.

[globular]

I'd agree to it. But they would have to make every attempt to be
authentic with the emulation of the two-strip process.
In recent years, many films use a color filtering process, probably
added digitally, that might remind someone of the filtering process in
silent films. It is usually overdone in my opinion, but this is a
change of subject.