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Originally Posted by fettastic

You are mistaken.

Since this link has nothing to do with Spartacus, I'm puzzled why you included it. to the commentary, they specifically say they colorized the b&W interpositive. doesn't take much to see it if you're looking for it. the whole DVD is shades of brown with background in B&W. It's just very well done compared to Ted Turner's bastardizations.

You have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what you are talking about. This is not a colorized black and white film. The link explains how color separation is used, and why you might be confusing it with black and white prints. You clearly did not read it and do not understand what colorization is, and the difference between a color separation process.

I'll paraphrase the article:

"The best film preservation method is to make a YCM color separation master, where the yellow, cyan, and magenta elements are stored as B&W film negative reels. It's then printed using an RGB light, where the red affects the cyan dye, the green affects the magenta dye, and blue affects the yellow dye. This allows the full reproduction of the original colors with the highest integrity when the three elements are combined through contact printing."

This is not, I repeat NOT colorization of a black and white film. It's an advanced photochemical process to get the best COLOR reproduction from a COLOR film.

Watch the restoration featurette on the new Godfather release. It will illustrate how this process works, and should clear up your confusion on the black and white issue.