Abbott and Costello in No Indians Please Colorized

In 1949 my dad, Clarence Boneck, purchased an Ampro 16mm sound projector. He had a windup 16mm Kodak Movie camera that was used to film home movies. He Joined the Movie of the Month club and would get movies monthly. When he got enough from the club as well as purchasing other sound movies he put them on a large reel. All were black and white. My brother John and I would watch these over and over and from repetition, were able to memorize the lines of the actors. A famous line in the WC Fields Great Chase was, "Mommie, doesn't that man have a funny nose? His mother replied, "You Mussen't make fun of the gentleman, Clifford. You'd like to have a nose like that full of nickles. Would't you?" Since this movie is still copy righted I could not put it on You Tube and it looks like Abbott and Costello in “No Indians Please” did not renew its copy right in 1974 and it now may be in the Public domain. Dad would go to one room country schools to have a movie night for a packed out crowd. In 2011 these archived movies along with other home movies were digitized to a DVD. The cost was $1750. The old projector still is in my attic and all the 16mm movies are in my closet. I could not find the heart to get rid of them. Then comes Pixbim Video Colorize AI software as well as Topaz Video Enhance AI. I first tried this out on the whole reel of black and white movies from the archived DVD. Pixbim colorizer has two options. I choose the high quality one on my high end computer. After over 5 days of processing the footage, it crashed right at the end. I then used pinnacle 24 to separate out the individual eight minute movies to put through another artificial intelligent program, Topaz Video Enhance AI, model Artemes Low quality to get a clearer picture an supposedly, 1080P. This took around an hour. I then put the resultant file back through Pinnacle 24 or Power Directo 11 before putting it through Pixbim Colorize AI. This 8 minute program took 24 hours to process on high quality in Pixbim. The processed result was not perfect in color and smoothness. I am sure, with a little time and a little more experience on my part, the Pixbim program will be more improved to be more accurate and smoother in its color rendition. You be the judge. Pixbim and Topaz are still amazing programs. Some of the not perfect results are probably due to operator error. I too, with experience, will get better at remastering this type of old video. My next colorization project, if not copyrighted, will be a 16mm cartoon sound movie,”The Health Farm”. Watch for it.

[@dwaldo3361]

in 1954 my dad brought a victor 16mm sound projector which I still have, I was born in 1954, in the 1960s myself & my 5-sisters would watch his music movies called "SOUNDIES" from the 1940s, he had 100s of these he splice together to create a 1-hour reel of film, these was at least 20-reels. He has the Soundies, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Spanky & The Gang, & Andy Panda Knotty Pine Cabin to name a few, all was in B&W. One of my favor all time movies was "No Indians Please", as a kid we knew the movie as "the car in the water".. My sisters & I can recite every word for word throughout the entire movie since we saw this movie, 1000 times due to we did not have a TV until 1966 when I was 12-yrs, we grew up watching these movies over & over from the 1950s to 1966... we still come together & act out the speaking parts word for word, what fond memories. All the film is gone to age but through RUclips we can still act out the the voices...my only regret was at the end of the chase when Abbot tell Costello "Listen to me, take the turns I tell you to take" that part is missing (Which Was My Favorite Line to say) & they the scene goes to Dr. Ha-Ha's Sanitarium.. As a small kid I figured out the train scene was film with the train going in reverse, you can tell by the smoke going back into the smoke stack instead of coming out, you can tell by the white smoke going in not out... another scene I never figure out how they turn that car around as they did especially in 1942, but you do notice the driver is not Costello, he put his arm up to cover his face, if you were turning a car around that fast no one would do that, the same scene is done twice in the movie, another scene I never figure out was how did they make the car jump in the air, & my last was the crashing into the house pushing the bed, of course they are not going that fast, watch the horses, they are really going too fast for a horse where the scene was speed up to look as they were going really fast... I am 68yrs old & The one line I still use today was when Costello said he would not marry the most beautiful girl in the world, then he saw Sunbeam & said "I COULD BE WRONG" !!I love that line & still use it...Thank You for posting this wonderful classic movie & in color....If anyone knows how they did the bed scene I would really like to know.... I never saw the original movie "Ride Em Cowboys" I only seen this short "No Indians Please" .. After growing up watching these classics, I became a union projectionist at several movie theatres for 20-yrs at the age of 17 until I turn to the technical side of the projection & sound which was 35mm & 70mm film, I just retire from the cinema industry after 51-yrs.... BTW all cinema film projectors are gone, there is no 35/70mm film to show, all the movies at the cinemas is now video projection with encoded servers... Again thank you David for posting this classic..

[@DavidBoneck]

Your experience as a young lad was very similar to my brother and me. I still have that movie in my closet with all the other movies. It is 18 additional years in the reel case since I had them digitized. I don't know if they are still viable. I have and old Bell and Howell sound 16mm projector in my attic as well as the old Ampro Sound16mm of my dads from 1948 or 49. Don't know if any of them still work though I do know that the Ampro tube amplifier doesn't produce sound any more. I had all my dads home movies of the month club films digitized in 2004. It cost me over $1700. They were digitized at 720P and put to CD. I have others I would like to put to you tube but they are still under copy right so I can't. One of my favorites in WC Fields in The Great Chase. Thanks for watching and giving your input. Enjoy the rest of my channel. Dave

[@gustavoaranda8297]

es un honor para mi conocerlo saludos desde chile un fans de Costello

[@DavidBoneck]

Gracias