Editing Film colorization (section)

{{Short description|Practice of adding color to monochrome motion pictures}}
{{about|colorization of monochrome moving-picture images|colorization of still images|Hand-colouring}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2019}}
[[File:Lights of Old Broadway (1925) Handschiegl color.jpg|thumb|right|Color applied to the 1925 film ''[[Lights of Old Broadway]]'' through the [[Handschiegl color process|Handschiegl process]]]]

'''Film colorization''' ([[American English]]; or '''colourisation'''/'''colorisation''' &#91;both [[British English]]&#93;, or '''colourization''' &#91;[[Canadian English]] and [[Oxford English]]&#93;) is any process that adds color to [[black-and-white]], [[sepia tone|sepia]], or other monochrome moving-picture images. It may be done as a special effect, to "modernize" black-and-white films, or to restore color segregation. The first examples date from the early 20th century, but colorization has become common with the advent of [[digital image processing]].