Welcome!
This site was set up in July 2005 to serve as a permanent
showcase for some of my colourised images.
I originally began to colourise monochrome stills after
seeing the outstanding work of Stuart Humphryes on the ‘Doctor Who’ fansite Outpost Gallifrey.
Stuart’s Photo Colourisation thread on the site’s message
boards inspired myself and others to have a go and after finding that
I could achieve reasonably impressive results it became a
regular hobby.
The intention is for this site to eventually include colourisations from various monochrome films and television programmes,
and possibly other historical images, but for now it will
display a number of my Doctor Who colourisations.
The Fade To Colour website is run by David P May.
LAUNCHED: 5th July 2005
LAST UPDATED: 15th July 2005
As an example of my colourising skills, here is a shot before…
…and after…
Please be aware that the images that appear on this site
are copyrighted and therefore restrictions to their use apply.
The colour information in them is my work and I must insist
that my permission is sought before using them in any way.
With special thanks to Stuart "Babel Fish"
Humphryes, Michael Blumenthal,
KKDW,
Jim Trenowden
and all the others who encouraged my efforts on Outpost
Gallifrey.
A classic moment as the original Doctor (William Hartnell) and his granddaughter Susan (Carole
Ann Ford) encounter the Daleks
for the very first time in the December 1963 episode “The Survivors”
“The Survivors”
The time travellers find
themselves miniaturised in “Planet Of Giants”.
Here, Susan (Carole Ann Ford) and Ian (William Russell) encounter an
ant.
The Daleks take control of London
in the 1964
adventure “The Dalek Invasion Of
Earth”
From the same story Barbara
(Jacqueline Hill) tends to the
injured Susan (Carole Ann Ford)
Vicki with the mysterious
Koquillion from the 1964 adventure “The Rescue”
Steven (Peter Purves) and Vicki
(Maureen O’Brien) in “Galaxy 4”,
the story which launched the
third season of Doctor Who in September 1965.
The first Doctor (William
Hartnell) and Steven (Peter Purves) share a quiet moment in 16th Century Paris during the
1965 adventure
“The Massacre Of St Bartholomew’s
Eve”
The original Doctor aboard the TARDIS with his final companions, Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Anneke Wills).
Ben and Polly were still around during the early adventures of the second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton.
Below: One of the dreaded Cybermen, as seen
in the 1967 story “The Tomb Of The Cybermen”
Victoria (Deborah Watling) and
Jamie (Frazer Hines) discover a batch of Yeti control units in a cave in the
1967 adventure “The Abominable Snowmen”.
…and here are the Abominable Snowmen themselves, robots of the Great Intelligence disguised as Yeti!
Wendy Padbury in the role of companion Zoe at the end of
her debut story “The Wheel In Space” (1968)
November 1968 witnessed the Cybermen trying to take control of London in the epic
adventure “The
Invasion”
Zoe (Wendy Padbury) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) look doubtful as the
Doctor hatches a plan in the 1969 story “The Space
Pirates”
Zoe (Wendy Padbury) and the Doctor
(Patrick Troughton) find themselves in a predicament in the 1969 adventure “The
Space Pirates”
By “Day Of The Daleks” in 1972, Doctor Who was being made in colour. However, many of the publicity shots, such as this one, were still in black and white. Playing the Doctor is Jon Pertwee. Katy Manning plays his worried-looking assistant Jo Grant.
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