Photos often shape the way we look at people we don't know. But if a person died a long time ago and the only remaining portraits of them are damaged black-and-whites, we might not get the full ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT “Colorizing” black-and-white movies remains controversial, some 30 years after initial attempts to make old films peacock-palatable in a color TV world. The original computer process ...

Pictures are worth 1,000 words and all, but when they’re in black and white, it’s hard to imagine what certain moments in time were really like. The same goes for historical figures. Luckily, ...

We often think of history in black and white, quite literally. And that’s because most very old photographs are indeed monochrome, taken before a time when images could easily and affordably be ...

Composite Films conducted 5,800 hours of research and poured over 27 miles of film to create our series America in Color. Where did they even begin? Their art director fills us in on the maddeningly ...

I’m a fan of classic Hollywood movies, and so over break I spent part of my time screening a marathon of 1930s screwball comedies. In the middle of watching dramatic, grayscale pictures like “It ...