CBS to air colorized "I Love Lucy" episodes

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I don’t have a problem with it. It’s just good entertainment, no matter the color or no color.
Something we have precious little of these days.
 
Colorized doesn’t bother me.

Now if they could only be “funny-ized”… 😛

(I never really found Lucille Ball to be funny) 🤷
 
John_Lazarus said:
Colorized doesn’t bother me.

Now if they could only be “funny-ized”… 😛

(I never really found Lucille Ball to be funny) 🤷
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You’re kidding! That’s amazing to me. We grew up on Lucy…we “love Lucy”. 😉
 
My dad hated her so we never got to watch it.

I watched it later on in life. I like when they moved to the country episodes the best. The one with all the baby chickens, the one where they built a bbq pit and Lucy lost her wedding ring…
 
TemperanceOfGod said:
My dad hated her so we never got to watch it.

I watched it later on in life. I like when they moved to the country episodes the best. The one with all the baby chickens, the one where they built a bbq pit and Lucy lost her wedding ring…
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Yes! Those were the best, likely due to the presences of Little Ricky in all the episodes.
I love the one with the wax tulips too!
 
TemperanceOfGod said:
I watched it later on in life. I like when they moved to the country episodes the best. The one with all the baby chickens, the one where they built a bbq pit and Lucy lost her wedding ring…
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Interesting. I think that the opposite is true, the early episodes were the best. Desi and the band would frequently end the show with a great performance.
 
I just read this yesterday! I can’t wait. I saw a colorized I Love Lucy Christmas special last year. I loved it and was wishing they would all be colorized! This is for May sweeps.
 
Some things just shouldn’t be tampered with. What’s s next - re-doing the Sistine in 3-D? The people doing this “have lots of 'splaining to do…”
 
I say “let it be.” Some things should not be tampered with, such as when modern technology brought out the CD to replace the LP record: it was NOT an improvement in most cases. Most of Alfred Hitchcock’s black-and-white films should not be colorized: they would lose their haunting effect. The same with many B movies, including film noir and sci-fi. Besides, colorized versions generally look awful. “I Love Lucy” is a product of the 1950’s Golden Age of Television and should remain so.
 
I saw a clip of this on television, and I have to admit it looked great, not at all like the lousy colorization of some old movies, like the Shirley Temple series.

I have no objection if they do this. I would object to colorizing the beginning and end of *The Wizard of Oz. *
 
meltzerboy said:
I say “let it be.” Some things should not be tampered with, such as when modern technology brought out the CD to replace the LP record: it was NOT an improvement in most cases. Most of Alfred Hitchcock’s black-and-white films should not be colorized: **they would lose their haunting effect. **The same with many B movies, including film noir and sci-fi. Besides, colorized versions generally look awful. “I Love Lucy” is a product of the 1950’s Golden Age of Television and should remain so.
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I agree.

I especially noticed this in the colourized version of Alistair Sim’s “Scrooge”. The cold, grey, shadowy bedchamber became a warm, woodpaneled, rather cheery room.

I could possibly get behind having the early part in black and white, and then colourized after he wakes up on Christmas morning – but maybe that’s too reminiscent of “Wizard of Oz”.
 
John_Lazarus said:
I agree.

I especially noticed this in the colourized version of Alistair Sim’s “Scrooge”. The cold, grey, shadowy bedchamber became a warm, woodpaneled, rather cheery room.

I could possibly get behind having the early part in black and white, and then colourized after he wakes up on Christmas morning – but maybe that’s too reminiscent of “Wizard of Oz”.
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But I Love Lucy is a comedy. How could colorization ruin the atmosphere of a 30 minute sitcom. It enhances the episodes to me.
 
I would actually like to see actual color photos of scenes for I Love Lucy.

I always wondered what color the couch was in the first apartment they had. It had a geometric print.

I also would love to see what color the “hostess pants” that Lucy picked out for Ethel as a gift for her birthday. They are funny enough in black and white, but the studio audience got to enjoy them in color.

Finally, there was a fashion show featured when they all went to Hollywood. I’d like to see what those dresses looked like.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
I would actually like to see actual color photos of scenes for I Love Lucy.

I always wondered what color the couch was in the first apartment they had. It had a geometric print.

I also would love to see what color the “hostess pants” that Lucy picked out for Ethel as a gift for her birthday. They are funny enough in black and white, but the studio audience got to enjoy them in color.

Finally, there was a fashion show featured when they all went to Hollywood. I’d like to see what those dresses looked like.
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I would like to see the episodes in Hollywood in color.
I don’t know what process they use to colorize or how expensive it is.
Or their trips in Europe would be good in color too.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I would like to see the episodes in Hollywood in color.
I don’t know what process they use to colorize or how expensive it is.
Or their trips in Europe would be good in color too.
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I remember when colorizing first came out (I guess 20 or so years ago) that it is a computer process. Someone assigns the colors that everything should be, then the computer goes frame by frame and inserts the colors.

There was a colorized film that starred Frank Sinatra, and they forgot to assign blue for his eyes.

Unless they have color photos to compare, the colors will just be assigned. So the hostess pants might end up being colorized as red and blue, but they might have actually have been a different color completely.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
I remember when colorizing first came out (I guess 20 or so years ago) that it is a computer process. Someone assigns the colors that everything should be, then the computer goes frame by frame and inserts the colors.

There was a colorized film that starred Frank Sinatra, and they forgot to assign blue for his eyes.

Unless they have color photos to compare, the colors will just be assigned. So the hostess pants might end up being colorized as red and blue, but they might have actually have been a different color completely.
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Too bad they can’t track down audience members or someone in wardrobe to help them. They would probably be pretty old by now!
It would be nice to know the true colors or to know the real shade of red Lucy’s hair was.
 
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