Son of Frankenstein In Color

[Toy Ranch]

Kerry Gammill hand colored a short sequence from Son of Frankenstein once for a joke, and it's been going around for a while...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaTSAfJ6Smo

This hasn't been seen often, and I didn't even realize it wasn't on YouTube, but here it is for all to see... 

Boris Karloff clowning around off camera in real, original, color!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9niMoOZnI

[Mike Scott]

Neither one is working, for me. I have seen them, before, though.

[Toy Ranch]

Hmmm.......  they work fine for me.


And I've seen them before, as have many here, I'm sure.  But first of all, the off camera color one, I could not find on YouTube, so thought it should be available....  and secondly, I'm guessing there may be a few folks here who haven't seen them.

[Mike Scott]

Workin' today! Don't know what the problem was yesterday, but the little circle thingy just kept going around and around and around.

[Toy Ranch]

Sometimes YouTube's servers get overcrowded, and it stallls.

[capt.hendry51]

That's was great. The make up was exactly as I thought it would look and it was fun watching Karloff kidding around with Jack Pierce. Not to stir up a controversy, but with Ray Harryhausen colorizing his great monster movies, how about colorizing some of the Universal Greats?  Collectors would have the originals and new DVD sets in color.  I would just like to get everyone's thoughts on the subject. Thanks.

[Toy Ranch]

I don't personally care to see them colorized, but I think that it would make them more accessible to many younger people who don't like black and white movies...  if they were to do that, it would not bother me in the least.

[Monsterkid71]

I would rather see them in glorious black and white. I do have Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers with the new colorized version and it was done well but I grew up with this in black and white and dammit its gonna stay that way! 

[Rich]

That is pretty neat footage. I like when he stuck his toung out at us.

[nbmonsterkid]

 Never saw the Karloff- Pierce backstage footage before... I thought Karloff looked kinda cool in color as Frankie! I agree that maybe colorization might make the old classics more accessable to the younger genereation, but I still prefer to watch 'em in glorious b&w!!

[Rich]

Colorizations might make them more watchable to the younger (spoiled brats!) generation. Then again, at the age of only 25 I myself am of the younger generation and yet love the old Universal black and white classics. I think the black and white aspect of these films add "character" to them. These are films of a particular period in time and in a way, I think that to colorize them might rape them of their identity.

On the other hand, maybe it would be cool if Universal ported the Monster Legacy Collections to Blu-Ray and as a bonus, gave us colorized versions of all of the classics, along side their original black and white versions. I think I might actually enjoy that to be honest, though I absolutely love them in their classic "glorious black and white silver screen looks" on my DVDs.

Though that footage above does prove that it CAN BE DONE right as long as whoever is going it does it with the upmost respect for every single detail of the make-up work that Jack Pierce created. Every single rinckle on The Mummy and every single hair on The Wolf Man must be intact and distinguishable.