It's out there but I prefer the black and white original.

It's trash!

Prince's face disappears and reappears, as does Jerome's, in the wreka stow scene. The colors are not true. We know Mary's dress at the party is purple, Prince is wearing gold in the "mirror mirror" scene, his jammies are dark pink in the phone call with Mary scene, etc. That's just a few examples.

None of that is there. It's a generalized colorization. I see it all the time on YoUTube when people try to upscale and colorize old early 19th century films.

Everything is faded color with a weird sepia tone over it.

It's not worth the effort, trust me. You'll be disappointed, and if it ever does come out in color, it won't be nearly as exciting, having gone thru this garbage.

It was intended to be viewed in black and white, so watch it in black and white.

When films are produced in B&W post-B&W era, generally as much effort goes into the shades, as does the colours in colour films.

Colourisation doesn't give a decent result anyway. Maybe one day AI will be able to provide optimal results.

Those "colorized" versions are terrible. I saw a few minutes of this and tuned it out.
Are we so shallow that fake color is preferred over an original film?

There are rumors that the original color print exists, does not exist, was destroyed, was kept, etc.
IF it does exist, and it's ever released, it's the only "color" version that's needed.necessary 'that

Fake colorization of this interesting film is as disgusting as those creepy photoshops with an image of Prince next to a fan.

SoulAlive, He looks good in color....

2freaky4church1 said:

What File sharing do you use? I was trying to use Photobucket image on another thread and it has "Photobucket" in the pic!

SoulAlive said:

What File sharing do you use? I was trying to use Photobucket image on another thread and it has "Photobucket" in the pic!

Or to anyone else what is a good image sharing program that doesn't leave the name of the file sharing program on the pic???

bluegangsta said:

It was intended to be viewed in black and white, so watch it in black and white.

When films are produced in B&W post-B&W era, generally as much effort goes into the shades, as does the colours in colour films.

Colourisation doesn't give a decent result anyway. Maybe one day AI will be able to provide optimal results.

This doesn't apply as this movie was originally filmed in color and converted to black and white for release. Unless the negatives have deteriorated or were destroyed there is a legitimate color version out there in an archive somewhere.

FragileUndertow said:

I seen a clip where the Thunderbird is pink. Also the car he buys for Mary is purple. The colors are off, the flickering of changing colors is really annoying. I'd love a proper color version, but we know this may never happen. I'd watch this fan made version if it was shared, but I wouldn't pay for it.

There is a proper (though not available), color version as the movie was originally filmed in color. It was converted to black and white for release. We'll likely never see it because it would cost bucks to digitize and almost no one cares enough to make it worth the money, but technically it exists unless the negatives were damaged/destroyed.

If P had wanted to make a colour movie, he wouldn't have made Under the Cherry Moon.

SoulAlive said:

What file sharing program you use?

eyewishuheaven said:

RODSERLING said:

eyewishuheaven said:

Obviously it was far from perfect, but it gave a good approximation of what the real thing could look like. When you see something that's a deep red or green, it made me think how vibrant it could look in a real colour version - like the stills we know.

we had fun, right?

The film as a whole is just okay so a colorized version would give me more interest to watch it for the 4th time. Its old enough to at least have both options

2freaky4church1 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

It's trash!

Prince's face disappears and reappears, as does Jerome's, in the wreka stow scene. The colors are not true. We know Mary's dress at the party is purple, Prince is wearing gold in the "mirror mirror" scene, his jammies are dark pink in the phone call with Mary scene, etc. That's just a few examples.

None of that is there. It's a generalized colorization. I see it all the time on YoUTube when people try to upscale and colorize old early 19th century films.

Everything is faded color with a weird sepia tone over it.

It's not worth the effort, trust me. You'll be disappointed, and if it ever does come out in color, it won't be nearly as exciting, having gone thru this garbage.

This is a bit overdramatic.

The color is a bit muted and spotty, but it's still fun to watch, IMO. Anyone expecting perfection out of a fan made product is selfish, entitled, and (at worst) delusional. If we ever do get a professional colorization of UTCM, my excitement will be in no way diminished by having seen the fan made version!

bluefish said:

This is a bit over dramatic.

The color is a bit muted and spotty, but it's still fun to watch, IMO. Anyone expecting perfection out of a fan made product is selfish, entitled, and (at worst) delusional.

Lucky for me, I've never given what you think about me. Prince could shit on a shingle and some fanatics would worship it.

No one said it should be perfect. It should be, at least, watchable. It's not.