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==== The Colorization Controversy ====

==== The Colorization Controversy ====

In 1970, [[Wilson Markle]] invented a technique called [[colorization]]<ref name=colorization>[http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/colorization/colorization.htm Colorization] at the On-line Museum of Broadcast Communications</ref> that attempted to reconstruct the colors that supposedly existed in a scene filmed in black-and-white. The first use of the technique was to add color to the black-and-white footage taken in the many missions of [[Project Apollo]]. In 1983, Markle formed a corporation to apply the technique to adding color back to existing black-and-white motion-picture and [[television]] productions.

In 1970, [[Wilson Markle]] invented a technique called ''colorization''<ref name=colorization>[http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/colorization/colorization.htm Colorization] at the On-line Museum of Broadcast Communications</ref> that attempted to reconstruct the colors that supposedly existed in a scene filmed in black-and-white. The first use of the technique was to add color to the black-and-white footage taken in the many missions of [[Project Apollo]]. In 1983, Markle formed a corporation to apply the technique to adding color back to existing black-and-white motion-picture and [[television]] productions.

The technique involved using a [[computer]] program to substitute a color for every shade of gray in the film. This would have been an obvious and logical solution to adding color to a scene photographed in space, because the [[astronaut]]s could describe realistically the colors they saw. But because the colors chosen in black-and-white motion-picture and television productions were ''not'' realistic colors, the technique produced results of decidedly low quality. It was also expensive, often costing $3,000 US per minute of footage.

The technique involved using a [[computer]] program to substitute a color for every shade of gray in the film. This would have been an obvious and logical solution to adding color to a scene photographed in space, because the [[astronaut]]s could describe realistically the colors they saw. But because the colors chosen in black-and-white motion-picture and television productions were ''not'' realistic colors, the technique produced results of decidedly low quality. It was also expensive, often costing $3,000 US per minute of footage.