Hello, my name is Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we are talking about colorization.

That's right.

We're paying tribute to the late, great Atlanta-based billionaire Ted Turner.

Wait, we're not doing this as a promotional tie-in with Spider-Noire, which is currently being released on Amazon Prime in black and white and in true color. What's the situation with that? They shot it in color, but then they also released a black and white version. Well, I believe the intent was always for it to be released in black and white, but Amazon or whoever the distributor was, was like, we need to put this out in color as well. Because people may just bounce off of it in black and white. And like that show, they do not want you to watch it in black and white. It's so hard to figure out. It gives you an option. No, it's so hard to watch it in black and white the way it's meant to be watched to the point

that like in the like description on the app it's supposed to pop up but people were like it's not giving me the pop up. You have to update the app because it's a new addition. And also if you try to download it to a device, it will only allow you to download it in color. Well, I know that when Tim Burton was making Ed Wood, he was originally going to make it at Paramount, and they were like,

you can't do it in black and white. And they had a compromise of like, well, what if you shot it in color and released a black and white version? And he said, that doesn't work because it just looks like shit. You've got to, because it's a whole other, you've got to create it for black and white. Yeah, when you are designing

the set, when you're lighting it, you're lighting it for black and white. So I don't know

how they did it on that Spider-Man show. Also, I'm being sarcastic unless Amazon Prime would like

to sponsor us. Right. Now in color, sponsored by Amazon Prime.

Color versus black and white is a discussion that's been going on forever. I think that it is less of an issue now only because there are many options available to us, even though, like I just

said, hypothetically, be able to choose whichever, it's tough. Like, a lot of people watching that

show will not know that a black and white exists.

If their app isn't updated, if it doesn't work, even though it says, I believe the, like, it's definitive or the authoritative black and white version. Like, they put a descriptor just to let you know, like, black and white is the way it's meant to be watched. It's called Spider-N noir. What we're really talking about is the very

controversial process of taking black and white movies and adding computer color to them.

Now, important question, Will, color. You're typing it up. You putting that you in there?

For the most part, I'm not. Oh, I'm doing it. It's British Canadian, baby. You got to put that

you in there. You want to know something? I don't like the you. Why it. It's British-Canadian, baby. You got to put that U in there.

You want to know something? I don't like the U. Why not? It's one letter to too many.

Color. Here's the thing. It's part of our heritage Canadian Heritage Minute. Look at me. I'm a

patriot, okay? So maybe I should. But what about colorization, which is an American term?

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