A múlt színei. Megjegyzések a fekete-fehér felvételek színes remedializációjáról
Colours of the Past. Observations on the Colorized Remediations of Black-and-white Images

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the issue of digitally colorizing black-and-white archival footage through an analysis of the film España en dos trincheras. La guerra civil en color (Francesc Ecribano and Luis Carrizo, 2016), which was created using the digitization and colorization of over 450 film recordings from the Spanish Civil War. The analysis focuses on the memory, social, and medial effects that make the colorization of black-and-white archival footage appealing. At the beginning of the study, the author highlights the media-cultural and social contexts of the colorization technique. Subsequently, the analysis explores the consequences of digital colorization in the context of specific implementations in Spanish documentary filmmaking. This includes examining changes in the visuality of the original archival footage, the effects of these changes on viewers, and how colorization deepens the illusion of spatiality. In the final section, the study addresses the historical implications of reimagining the past in colour, raising questions about the interpretive frameworks this practice imposes on historical understanding.

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