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In 1986, The New York Times ran a screed against a film-restoration trend gaining steam.  In an essay published in the thick of the “colorization” craze of the 1980s, the late critic Vincent Canby argued that the process of altering black-and-white movies with modern visual flourishes “desecrated” those classics, writing that “nobody connected with the original[s]…had anything to do … Read more