MOVIES - March 16, 1987

“A bastardization . . . a travesty . . . butchery at its most blatant,” are just a few comments from a national survey of movie critics on the process of colorizing black-and-white films. The nonprofit Pantone Institute of Color survey of 1,200 critics revealed that only 11% support colorization. The rest had little good to say: “Colorizers show all the artistry of backwoods embalmers”; “cinematic rape”; “a case of ‘too late for the funeral; in time to spit on the grave.’ ”