Tweet Color from Black-and-White: colorized photos

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"Colleen Moore On The Zoom!"




Myrna Loy in Costume for DON JUAN (1926)

Ah, okay then...

Well, enough chit-chat...
Time to post more colorized pics...


Clara gettin' ready to "get her man"...
I have multiple issues with this one. Her lipstick looks too bright. Not to mention some pink in the lower right-hand corner. Don't know how that got there?


Gracious! What a risque looking outfit! :lol:
Edit: Aw, dang! Forgot to color her gums!


Whoops! Messed up in the continuancy of Norma's dress. The top is gold yet magically turns red!


I take slight issue with Theda's purple drape...


Whoa! Poor Ollie looks deathly pale!


I can just imagine Betty saying, "Here's lookin' at you, kid!"

It's Clara's Wedding Night in this one! (At least, I think it is...)



Hey! Enough with all the Hoop-la!



Say, am I allowed to post pics of Clara in the "Snake-Hips" outfit from "Hoop-la"? Because I'm not sure about the policy and don't wanna get in trouble...

Steppenbow59,

Here is La Talmadge from THE WOMAN DISPUTED. Don't have a title for this still.

Gagman,

Great color job. It really looks like a color original. My suggested title is thus:
"You're not really calling this picture, WOMAN DISPUTED, right?"

Steppenbow59,

Here is La Talmadge from THE WOMAN DISPUTED. Don't have a title for this still.

Gagman,

Great color job. It really looks like a color original. My suggested title is thus:
"You're not really calling this picture, WOMAN DISPUTED, right?"

Genius.

Say, does anybody have a nice graphic of Bebe Daniels for me to colorize?

SteppenBow59,

That Clara Glancing over her shoulder smiling is terrific!

Bob,

Glad you both like the Norma. Funny, I worked on that photo several weeks ago. Never posted it here before. Wasn't satisfied as I thought I made a couple key mistakes on the outfit.

Lo, the pages are mounting fast! I have a Gish, but need to shrink it down in size first before I can post here. It's gigantic!

Finished!



Gracious! Such an intense stare!

Say, does anybiody have a nice graphic of Bebe Daniels for me to colorize?

SteppenBow,

I just completed several Bebes for my new book. Here's an original postcard and my color transfer. I wonder how Bebe would look in alabaster?





And here's a glass slide I posted some time ago. A good caracature of Bebe:

Say, does anybody have a nice graphic of Bebe Daniels for me to colorize?

SteppenBow,

I just completed several Bebes for my new book. Here's an original postcard and my color transfer. I wonder how Bebe would look in alabaster?

I have a feeling I won't do her justice... but have faith!
I shall try!

Bebe Daniels, the Good Little Bad Girl:



I think I'm gonna take a break from posting for about a day or two. I made myself look like such an airhead on the Talking About Silents forum...

Very nice Bebe, in fact I like your rendition better than my own. Don't worry about the "airhead" thing. You can't post on N'ville for very long w/o some mishap. That's why they set up Gagman and myself over here away from the other folks! SteppanBow, if you really want to do some more Bebe photos I think I can dig up a few for you.

An original color LC:


And b/w that got bobfells color:

Bob,

Here are some Vintage painted Lobby-cards that really stand out. They are not colorized.

Lets see if anyone can guess the identity of the beautiful, yet mysterious "Riddle Cat'? That is the question. With her ruby red lips, eyes of blue and golden mane, men are simply purring to meet her. This image is cropped from a 1926 lobby-card. There are at least three of them that show the same image. The film is probably lost.



"Long Legged Masked Riddle Cat"

Gagman,

Uh, Phyllis Haver? That's my stock answer to mystery 20s gals.

Here's more Dolores in original color:


Some nice poster art of Jean in original color:


and newspaper foldout in original colors:

Whoa! What happened there?

Steppenbow59,

Appears as if poor Janet tumbled from the latter and crashed landed on an unsuspecting boy. Of course if some gal as cute as Janet Gaynor toppled out of the sky on you, most guys probably wouldn't complain to much. Or maybe he was scurrying up the latter with her and they both slipped and sprawled to the ground? This film is probably lost so we may never know how the sequence went. If it was even kept in the completed production.

More Magnificent Dolores Del Rio Lobby-cards! I think REVENGE is lost. But RAMONA (1928) a legit Blockbuster at the time, long lost, is found and being restored by the Library of Congress. In-fact the project may even be completed by now. Maybe we will get an update on these boards soon? I sure hope so.

My colorizations for the day.
Jobyna Ralston:


Mary Brian:



Phyllis Haver:


While this is a completely random question, I just have to know:
I've always pronounced Renée Adorée's name as ruh-NAY add-er-AY. Am I pronouncing it right?

Also, sorry about the heavy eye make-up on Joby, but that's what the original monochrome had.

Martie

:o Lets see if anyone can guess the identity of the beautiful, yet mysterious "Riddle Cat'? That is the question. With her ruby red lips, eyes of blue and golden mane, men are simply purring to meet her. This image is cropped from a 1926 lobby-card. There are at least three of them that show the same image. The film is probably lost.



"Long Legged Masked Riddle Cat"

Is her chin actually a part of the mask? Because, if not, then I think it's...
Laura La Plante...?

Oh, come on! Laura had quite a chin!

Martie

My colorizations for the day.

While this is a completely random question, I just have to know:
I've always pronounced Renée Adorée's name as ruh-NAY add-er-AY. Am I pronouncing it right?

Also, sorry about the heavy eye make-up on Joby, but that's what the original monochrome had.

Martie

Don't know the answer to your question, but that's the way I always pronounced it.

Joby actually looks really good, heavy eye makeup is not out of line.

Could you spare Mary #2 a couple of pints of blood? This isn't a Helen Chandler portrait.

SteppenBow59,

Yes, that is how you pronounce her last name I believe, Add-er-AY. Or Ador-ray It is not Adore-Ray I don't think. Even though that is how it was said in the Anna May Wong Documentary. However, her first name Ruh-NAY, I have also heard pronounced several times as RAIN-NEE. Or even RAINY. Especially, in older sources. I would like to know which is correct? Especially, since I have always called her Ruh-Nay just as you do.




Portrait in Profile April 1922 Issue of Motion Picture Classic

Can any Bow-ites Clarify this photo? I've not seen it before and I wonder if it's connected with a particular film?

My colorizations for the day.

While this is a completely random question, I just have to know:
I've always pronounced Renée Adorée's name as ruh-NAY add-er-AY. Am I pronouncing it right?

Also, sorry about the heavy eye make-up on Joby, but that's what the original monochrome had.

Martie

Don't know the answer to your question, but that's the way I always pronounced it.

Joby actually looks really good, heavy eye makeup is not out of line.

Could you spare Mary #2 a couple of pints of blood? This isn't a Helen Chandler portrait.

Here's Mary again, this time with an extra pint of blood coursing through her veins:

Hopefully, she looks like less of a vampire now.

Below, Evelyn Nesbit:

I know, I know... it looks like I spray-painted it.

Martie

Can any Bow-ites Clarify this photo? I've not seen it before and I wonder if it's connected with a particular film?

This particular Bow-ite (and a hardcore one, to boot) would be more than happy to Clara-fy it. Oh, and no, it's not connected with a film (as far as I remember, anyway).
How do you want me to Clara-fy it? As in brighten it just a tad?

Martie

Martie,

OK, that helps but is this a particularly rare photo? Feel free to do a color transfer if you are so inclined.

Martie,

OK, that helps but is this a particularly rare photo? Feel free to do a color transfer if you are so inclined.

I'm not sure about the rarity of the photo. Sure seems to have been a helluva publicity shot series, though. I've got a few more Chinese Claras. I even have a Chinese Warrior Clara! This most likely isn't what you were hoping for, but here's one I already have.
It's slightly brighter than yours. The bottom seems to be a little more cropped than yours, though. Where did you get yours? I got mine on the Clara Bow Archive on Tumblr.

Can any Bow-ites Clarify this photo? I've not seen it before and I wonder if it's connected with a particular film?

I think I'll tackle it in color. It might take me a while, though; I've only ever done portraits!

Martie

Martie wrote: Where did you get yours? I got mine on the Clara Bow Archive on Tumblr.

Martie, mine is a scan from 2 and a half x 3 inch negative. I adjusted the contrast, brightness, etc. so if you feel it;s too dark I can fix that easily enough. how's this?



Regardless, I encourage you to move beyond coloring just head shots. The process becomes more involved but the results are more impressive. Just remember that you don't have to color everything.

Martie wrote: Where did you get yours? I got mine on the Clara Bow Archive on Tumblr.

Martie, mine is a scan from 2 and a half x 3 inch negative. I adjusted the contrast, brightness, etc. so if you feel it;s too dark I can fix that easily enough. how's this?



Regardless, I encourage you to move beyond coloring just head shots. The process becomes more involved but the results are more impressive. Just remember that you don't have to color everything.

Bob,
Hey, it looks nice like that. Oh, I wil definitely tackle this one!
Wish me luck!

Martie

Bob, Stephan,

Here is another interesting still. Again apparently not for any one particular film.



Eleanor Boardman and Marion Davies in 1927


An another photo of Marion with a wide brimmed Sunday hat.



And with William Haines in costume as Jack And Jill. Whoops, did Marion lose her bloomers there?

The transfusion is a success! Ah, but Mary appears to have overused Latisse and the side effects kicked in. Damn that Claire Danes. If you read some gossip mags from the mid '20s through the '30s more of her was as she said of her age, negotiable. Her eyes were either blue or hazel depending on when the information was printed. You'd think they'd settle on one color, but apparently not. Magazine cover art seems to lean toward blue and I'm sure someone here has a definitive answer.

As an aside I still don't know if she was 5'0" or 5'2". Hardly matters, anyone who was smaller than my mother (5'3-1/2") was really petite. Similarly, there are a few other players of the era I find differing heights for who weren't really children when they started in Hollywood.

The Clara pic looks like a challenge, good luck!

The task...
*deep exhale*
...is complete.
Trust me, this was not easy to work on by any means.
Below, Clara in all her Orient-ified (politically correct police ain't gonna like that) splendor:



Martie