“The Germans Wore Gray, You Wore Blue”: Frank Capra, Casablanca, and the Colorization Controversy of the 1980s
@article{Edgerton2000TheGW, title={“The Germans Wore Gray, You Wore Blue”: Frank Capra, Casablanca, and the Colorization Controversy of the 1980s}, author={Gary R. Edgerton}, journal={Journal of Popular Film and Television}, year={2000}, volume={27}, pages={24 - 32} }
Abstract Converting Casablanca to color was undoubtedly the last straw for most anti-colorizers. The colorization controversy began in the spring of 1985 when Frank Capra went public with his apparently strong objections over the colorizing of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) by Colorization, Inc., of Toronto, Canada. The roots of the impending hostilities actually reach back to early 1981 when the executive board of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) began actively campaigning for a “creative…
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