would you like to see classic boxing in colour ?

Probably some of the really older fights, like Johnson etc.

Would be good to see Louis in colour though!

I don't mind watching black n' white anyway, doesn't make all that much difference with boxing imo...as long as the quality is good enough.

 

I like all things black and white.

 

Have no desire to see vintage fights in Crayola Color. In fact, would love to a see a return to B&W trunks, eight-ounce gloves, 15-round title fights, 'n boxers headlining up-'n-coming cards introduced by the ring announcer before the main-go.

 

This!!!!:deal You just spoke for me J.G.!! It's almost like that time thaty Ted Turner wanted to colorize the classic films....an abomination!!

 

Dempsey v Willard is available in colour, isnt it?

 

'n it's as real as a fever dream, B.

 

Yes please; make one orange and one blue.

 

Yes, Willard's blood...
Seriously, some things are best left alone, unless it is natural...

 

The thing is with these things (turned into colour), is that when I watch them, I always think this is B&W made into colour, it kinds of distracts me.

 

I would. I'm not in it for the romance and nostalgia. A fight isn't a work of art. It's a contest. Color them up and see what they look like. It would at least make the fighters stand out the background in some of the crappier quality films: Langford/Flynn for one

I went ahead and made my own colorized lubinized film reproduction. With more to come:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROUiZnnFfAw[/ame]

Note the American flag around Sharkey, in black. And the tattoo on his chest. And Jeff still has hair.

youtube.com/eslubin

 

Does the actual quality and ability to pick up detail differ in them Doug.ie?

Black and white is fine, you can get some real pin sharp B and W film as it is.

 

That's just it. Technically, how do you get details like blood just right on a black and white boxing film? Dempsey had a very dark tan in that one. Shelley Winters wrote in her autobiography about how she came deeply suntanned back from a tropical vacation to shoot a technicolor film, and the technicians had a nightmare of a time correcting the color to properly accommodate her darker tone. Again, this is a problem that occurred with a film that actually was shot in color, not something that was colorized decades later.

With black and white, it's always best to just enhance the existing resolution. Can't go wrong that way.

 

It might be interesting to see what can be made of some of the really bad films, such as Corbett vs Fitz, where you really cant see much at all. What can be done, nowadays with still photos (whether colourising or not), is truly amazing.