Editing Film colorization (section)

===Partial colorization===
The earliest form of colorization introduced limited color into a black-and-white film using dyes, as a visual effect. The earliest Edison films, most notably the ''[[Annabelle Serpentine Dance]]'' series, were also the earliest examples of colorization, done by painting [[aniline]] dyes onto the emulsion.

Around 1905, [[Pathé]] introduced ''Pathéchrome'', a stencil process that required cutting one or more stencils for each film frame with the aid of a reducing [[pantograph]].

In 1916, the [[Handschiegl Color Process]] was invented for [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s film ''[[Joan the Woman]]'' (1917). Another early example of the Handschiegl process can be found in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)|Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1925), in which [[Lon Chaney, Sr.|Lon Chaney]]'s character can be seen wearing a bright-red cape while the rest of the scene remained monochrome. The scene was toned sepia, and then the cape was painted red, either by stencil or by matrix. Then, a sulfur solution was applied to everything but the dyed parts, turning the sepia into blue tone. The process was named after its inventor, Max Handschiegl. This effect, as well as a missing color sequence, were recreated in 1996 for a [[Photoplay Productions]] restoration by computer colorization (see below).

Partial colorization has also been utilized on footage shot in color to enhance commercials and broadcast television to further facilitate the director's artistic vision. As an example, [[Cerulean Fx]] provided partial colorization for [[Dave Matthews Band]]'s music video ''[[The Space Between]]'' as well as [[Outkast]]'s music videos ''[[Bombs Over Baghdad]]'' and ''[[roses (OutKast song)|Roses]]''.

{{Further|topic=the colorization technique|Splash of color}}