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About Wilson Markle
- Wilson Markle (born September 2, 1938) is a Canadian engineer who invented the film colorization process in 1970.
- His first company, Image Transform, colored pictures from the Apollo space program to make a full-color television presentation for NASA.His method used computers to assign predetermined colors to shades of gray in each scene. In 1983, he founded Colorization Inc., which was co-owned by Hal Roach Studios and International HRS Industries.
- The word "colorization" later became a generic name.
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