TIL a very interesting and mind-blowing thing about b/w television shows and possibly b/w movies too: they needed to use bizarre set colours to achieve the correct tones!
It makes sense, of course, as with microphones and other sensors, the capture isn't perfect, corrections are needed to complete the illusion.
This will forever change how I watch film noir!
@teledyn @pandora_parrot - One of the reasons the Munsters are all green, and the Frankenstein Monster was green in the movies was because in black-and-white, green appears whiter-than-white to get that unnaturally pale look. When productions went to color, they kept the green.
@teledyn @pandora_parrot - But wait, there's more!
The TARDIS console used in Dr Who from 1963 to 1970 was also pale green, because, again, in Black and White it appeared whiter than white. :)
So, now, what does all this say about our colourizing old footage with AI? The Machine is telling us not what was really there, but has learned to lie and tells us what we want to see!
@teledyn @pandora_parrot - Old Dr Who episodes had some neat recolorization methods. Like taking the color signal off old American off-the-air VHS copies and overlaying them on Black and White film footage. Or if you really want some technological witchcraft, PAL has "chroma dots."
