Adding colour

Well, Australia collapsed today in the cricket, losing badly to England. I didn’t realise this until I switched on the system to find ‘Gilligan’s Island’ showing instead.

And, wow, how awful was the picture from ‘Gilligan’s Island’? Okay, the particular episode dates from 1965, so you can’t expect too much. But this was too much: incredibly soft, and with this slightly weird colour, with too frequent off-colour fringes on the edges of characters; eg. see Thurston Howell III’s chin, nose and forehead (cropped, not scaled):

Gilligan's Island capture

Then the reason became clear. Here is one of the end title plates:

Gilligan's Island credit

Turns out this episode was made in black and white, and then colourised in 1991. Pretty horrible job they did of it. I imagine that better results would be available today.

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