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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
The issue with colorizing old films was that colorizing them meant you couldn't avoid the colorized version. If the colorized version came on TV, you couldn't avoid it, if the colorized version was sold in stores, that would be all there was. That displaced the original, while an adapted public domain version of a book will not.
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My point was that the texture of the movie was changed by the colorization process just like modernizing the language of a book changes the texture of a classic book. The colorizing made the movie look bleached out (a real problem if it was supposed to be a mystery or spook movie) and it was a disservice to the atmosphere of the movies themselves (IMO) and likewise changing the text of a book from what its author intended does something similar I think.