Most movie people hate the business of colorizing old black-and-white movies such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and It’s a Wonderful Life. Actually, anybody who isn’t brain dead would be against such a ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Dwight Garner The first chapter of Wil Haygood’s elegant and well-made book of history, ...

Will Haygood is walking me through our collective USA history in his monumental "Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World" [University Press of Kentucky, paper edition 2024; ...

As a middle-schooler in Columbus, bestselling author Wil Haygood went to the movies — a lot. “My mother would give me 50 cents every Sunday to go to the Garden Theater on North High Street,” said ...

“Colorization: One Hundred Years Of Black Films In A White World,” by Wil Haygood, (Alfred A. Knopf: New York), 2021, 452 pages, hardcover.

When Tokuso Hamai saw the colorized version of an old black-and-white photo of a picnic held under cherry tree blossoms sometime before World War II, forgotten memories of family members, most of whom ...