Sentence examples for colourise from inspiring English sources
To colourise an old photograph or film is to falsify it.
V and I go back almost 25 years, to the first time I picked up a copy of Warrior magazine and saw those wonderful black-and-white David Lloyd-drawn people staring hopelessly back at me. (I find it hard enough to adjust to a world in which the V graphic novel is coloured; a colour V for Vendetta seems as pointless as colourising Citizen Kane).
A 1988 congressional hearing heard that colourising old black-and-white films would constitute "destruction of our film heritage".
There is colourised black-and-white footage and depthless digital panoramas of New York, the Hamptons and the ashy, crummy no-man's-land in-between; there are hyper-real street scenes through which Gatsby roars in his sports car.
When I spoke to the French musicians Air at the Cannes film festival, they had just completed the soundtrack to a restored, colourised version of Georges Méliès's Le Voyage dans la Lune.
When Guiliana in her green coat, with her little boy, wanders listlessly into view, she looks as if she has been colourised in a black-and-white film.
