As part of our film preservation initiative, Preservation Project Partnerships,” being done in co-operation with The Metro Theatre Center Foundation, we have acquired more than 400 collections of historically or culturally significant home movies, among which is this stunning discovery of a rare home movie of the MGM star Spencer Tracy. The 16mm black and white camera original has been preserved at The Academy Film Archives.
In order to help fund the costly preservation work, we have to look for income streams. In addition to our digital restoration work on old films (see the JFK sample on our site) we also have the facilities to colorize black and white films. Here you can see a short sample of the Spencer Tracy film which has been colorized according to the color research we found of the scene, and the fact that Tracy did, in fact, have red hair. While there are limited reasons for colorizing material from a historical perspective, it is sometimes required by clients who want all material for a project to be in color. We have decided to add this service to the wide range of film production services offered by Premiere Pictures.