Looks good!

It's called DeOldifier, although it's a google notebook application type thing, it's a bit complicated, but it runs in web browser and there are a few tutorials on YouTube.

This is great! Lots of opportunities for the future.

No doubt some films will look nice in colour but then others would be best to leave alone.
One that comes to mind immediately, and I haven’t seen it for donks, is Little Boy Lost to remain B & W. Probably Riding High as well-wish that was shown on TV.

Candidates for colourisation in the "Road" films would be first "Road To Morocco" I suggest.  "Road To Rio" another perhaps?   There is one scene early on in the film which might face objections today (the simple-minded person & the speech defect market scene).   The same kind of thing arises in "Holiday Inn" with the blacking-up scene. The following appears on the Web:

"........It also doesn’t tell us whether TCM has been right to show Holiday Inn in its entirety, or whether AMC has been right to cut out the “Abraham” number. Me, I watch Holiday Inn on a DVD with the complete film. That DVD also contains a colorized version. I have never watched the colorized version and I never will, because I like watching the film as it was originally conceived, the good and the bad. “Abraham” is a bad part. It isn’t even a particularly good song. I’m just not sure that we move forward by pretending that song, and that America, never happened....."

In recent years, there indeed was the special edition of the 1942 "Holiday Inn" film (Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire) that was successfully colourised, also Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in the "Mark of Zorro" (1940). Some years before, "Jailhouse Rock" (MGM 1958), Elvis's third film, was colourised for a special video boxset (not DVD in those days).    I read that Orson Welles inserted a clause in his will (I think it was) pleading that Ted Turner not be allowed to turn "Citizen Kane" into a colour movie - this was considered legally when it was pointed out that the original contract was to provide a "black & white" movie!

John Turner wrote:

Fascinating subject. Does anyone colourise photos and which app or software do you use?

I think, John that your answer is at the very start of this thread. The software is "DeOldifier" and it caters for stills and movies apparently. I have been sent a couple of samples and you can see the result of ModerBingFan's work by following his link.

There are other software programmes for colouring still photos.

An internet search on "image colorizing software" brings up quite a number including this review of five free applications. https://medium.com/@photoj/colorize-black-and-white-photos-free-ed5b36f1efe5 
 

Dear Archiefit,

I got a surprise to read your posting of the 20th May that "CASABLANCA" has been colourised!  I immediately went to check on what is available via Google/Amazon/E-Bay but noticed that the reviews of some versions say that an inferior print was used, or the sound is poor or the picture is not sharp.

Another review suggests that an earlier colourisation process was used.

Is this an official Warner Bros. product?  If so, please do you have a reference (date, single or double boxset, etc) so that the best version can be identified.  I saw a short scene in colour on the Web with Peter Lorre but it looks to have a rather yellow/orange tint (a bit like fake tan!).

Dear Archiefit,

Thank you very much for your detailed reply and information.

When I got Elvis's "Jailhouse Rock" colourised version of the 1957 film on VHS and by MGM/UA Home Video - that was 28 years ago in 1992, but I have never seen a Dvd colourised version of the film.  The film I really would love to see of Elvis's in colour is "King Creole" (1958).  Elvis's second film "Loving You" (1957) was in glorious colour as originally released.

I am going to check again what Dvd versions of "Casablanca" in colour are available to purchase and read again what people have said in their reviews though sometimes the reviews get bundled together for different versions! 

Your videotape version has a lovely cover. I presume that it is in PAL (not NTSC).

Thanks again.
 

Archiefit wrote:

I'm not a collector of Dorothy Lamour records, but my guess is she must have been on a different label other than Decca,

Most of her recordings (and there were not many) through the 30s and 40s were on RCA Bluebird, so that seems to be a likely assumption, but oddly in 1944 there was a collection on Decca of eight Hawaiian songs on four shellac 78s, which were later issued on an LP. 

By the 50s she does not seem be tied to any regular label.