Black-and-white and color versions of It's a Wonderful Life are currently being offered on Amazon Prime Video. On Twitter, many folks are shunning the colorized version, claiming that adding color ...

"The Christmas Story" colorized (left) and the original (right). Fans of “The Andy Griffith Show” will see something they’ve never seen before: two episodes of the classic ’60s-era series airing ...

Time travel might be impossible (for now!), but Marina Amaral gets pretty close with Photoshop. The Brazilian artist digitally colorizes black-and-white photographs from the past with obsessive ...

Color photography didn’t become more widely available until the 1930s, and photography in general wasn’t all that common until the late 1800s. Because of their obsolete nature, colorized photos from ...

We almost jumped away from the screen when the train came in. Credit: Association Freres Lumiere / getty images Urban legend has it that in 1895, when the Lumière brothers' “L’arrivée d’un train en ...

An urban legend tells the tale of Google promising a cool feature for its Photos application: the magic ability to turn your old black-and-white photos into colorful pics. Google’s magnificent dataset ...

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 ...

The year 1901 opened the doorway to a new century. It was a year on the edge of enormous change. It was a time when steam powered the world, and horse-drawn carriages still ruled the roads. Cities ...

When black-and-white photographs are colorized, the subject in the image looks more “real.” This makes sense: Most of us experience our surroundings in color, and when rendered in monochrome, the ...

The Great Depression stands as the most devastating economic crisis in modern history. It began in 1929 when the rapid growth of the Roaring Twenties abruptly collapsed, plunging the world into more ...