Ted Turner Colorized Classic Movies

In the mid-1980s, as CNN emerged ... cinephiles and much of the Hollywood establishment with his plans to “colorize” black-and-white films from the MGM library....

On February 14, 1989, Turner ... his production company, Mercury Productions Inc., and, on the basis of their review, we have decided not to proceed with colorization of the movie....

On December 2, 1987, Turner Entertainment had entered into an agreement with American Film Technologies (AFT) to computer-colorize three films from the MGM library that were originally in black-and-white: Boom Town, They Were Expendable and ...

On December 2, 1987, Turner Entertainment had entered into an agreement with American Film Technologies (AFT) to computer-colorize three films from the MGM library that were originally in black-and-white: Boom Town, They Were Expendable and Catered Affair, with Turner having the option for AFT to colorize an additional 22 films, and a second option to do another 24 films by 1992.

Turner peered at me in amazement and said, “Wow! They let blacks into this place now?” · CNN’s high-water mark was its breaking news in January 1991. Viewers worldwide listened as anchor Bernard Shaw and foreign correspondents Peter Arnett and John Holliman hunkered down in a Baghdad hotel room and described in living color the sights and sounds of Gulf War I: U.S.

Ted Turner shocked Hollywood by colorizing classics. Founding Turner Classic Movies cleaned the slate

When the cinephilia bug bit me in the late-mid 1980s, Ted Turner was The Devil Incarnate. He was at that time pushing colorization, taking black-and-white classic movies, many of which became legally his when he purchased the MGM Library, and “updating” them with computerized color to air ...