Godzilla 1954 in Color (aka Cozzilla 1977)

The Dark Uniter · Post by **The Dark Uniter** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:39 am

The only colorized version of Godzilla I know is Cozzilla. However, color did exist back during the 50's. The movie was made in Black and White and the first real color monster movie from Toho was Rodan.

Lord Gappa · Post by **Lord Gappa** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:40 am

When the film came out, some countries, especially the United States and Latin America, thought Godzilla was green.

HeiseiGodzilla117 · Post by **HeiseiGodzilla117** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:09 am

Lord Gappa wrote:When the film came out, some countries, especially the United States and Latin America, thought Godzilla was green.

What was the point of typing that in this thread? It's irrelevant.

Anyway, I've never heard of a colorized version of Gojira except for Cozzilla. I don't have much of a desire to see that particular movie in color anyways. The B&W adds to the dark atmosphere of the film for me.

Lord Gappa · Post by **Lord Gappa** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:42 am

HeiseiGodzilla117 wrote:
Lord Gappa wrote:When the film came out, some countries, especially the United States and Latin America, thought Godzilla was green.
What was the point of typing that in this thread? It's irrelevant.

Anyway, I've never heard of a colorized version of Gojira except for Cozzilla. I don't have much of a desire to see that particular movie in color anyways. The B&W adds to the dark atmosphere of the film for me.

Well i thought since we're talking about Gojira in color, i'd like to say that in some countries Godzilla in the film was thought to be green.

Post by **Greyshot151** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:46 am

I believe the green effect was from Cozzilla. I believe Godzilla in that film looked green. Anyway, I think Gojira deserved to be in black and White but nothing after that. I'm talking about you Godzilla Raids Again!

Lord Gappa · Post by **Lord Gappa** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:55 am

Grayshot954 wrote:I believe the green effect was from Cozzilla. I believe Godzilla in that film looked green. Anyway, I think Gojira deserved to be in black and White but nothing after that. I'm talking about you Godzilla Raids Again!

That explains that.

HeiseiGodzilla117 · Post by **HeiseiGodzilla117** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:10 am

Lord Gappa wrote:
Grayshot954 wrote:I believe the green effect was from Cozzilla. I believe Godzilla in that film looked green. Anyway, I think Gojira deserved to be in black and White but nothing after that. I'm talking about you Godzilla Raids Again!
That explains that.

No, Cozzilla was released in 1977 I believe. People in America saw Godzilla: KOTM long before that. The misconception came from movie posters depicting Godzilla as a green, fire-breathing dinosaur. And that was in 1956, nearly 20 years before Cozzilla. It was just an assumption made by the Americans who made the posters.

Crazy Jim Films · Post by **Crazy Jim Films** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:13 am

Watched the opening and it's more than a little unsettling.

Crazy Jim Films · Post by **Crazy Jim Films** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 1:09 am

Well, yeah. It reminds me of watching the Spike Lee doc, "When The Levees Broke". Tragedy on film is one thing. There's powerful filmmaking where the emotion is so real that the fictional moments create this kind of surreal impact on the viewer but watching the real life horror is tough because it's no longer "escapism". It's a very tough line because it's no longer fictional anymore.

Black Lion · Post by **Black Lion** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:51 am

This has probably been asked before, but I just came across this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRVJWb_F ... re=related

I thought that they just colored over the 1954 scenes for the teaser, but some of the comments say that the original movie was actually filmed in color and made black and white for effect. Sounds like bull to me, since it would have cost more to use color film back then and they didn't have much of a budget...

Is there any truth to this, and more importantly, is there a colored copy of this film anywhere?

Mr. X · Post by **Mr. X** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:57 am

Black Lion wrote:This has probably been asked before, but I just came across this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRVJWb_F ... re=related

I thought that they just colored over the 1954 scenes for the teaser, but some of the comments say that the original movie was actually filmed in color and made black and white for effect. Sounds like bull to me, since it would have cost more to use color film back then and they didn't have much of a budget...

Is there any truth to this, and more importantly, is there a colored copy of this film anywhere?

There's Cozzilla, the Italian one that was poorly colored.

Gojira was filmed in B&W. There aren't any color pictures, let alone film. It was colorized for this trailer.

Black Lion · Post by **Black Lion** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:58 am

Mr. X wrote:
Black Lion wrote:This has probably been asked before, but I just came across this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRVJWb_F ... re=related

I thought that they just colored over the 1954 scenes for the teaser, but some of the comments say that the original movie was actually filmed in color and made black and white for effect. Sounds like bull to me, since it would have cost more to use color film back then and they didn't have much of a budget...

Is there any truth to this, and more importantly, is there a colored copy of this film anywhere?
There's Cozzilla, the Italian one that was poorly colored.

Gojira was filmed in B&W. There aren't any color pictures, let alone film. It was colorized for this trailer.

That's what I thought. That gets me thinking about starting a project to color the film... not that it NEEDS color, but it would just be something neat to see.

Tamura · Post by **Tamura** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:08 am

I thought COZZILLA was actually very innovative. How many colorized movies can you name before 1977, besides very early, stencil-colored fare like THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY and A TRIP TO THE MOON?

I've created my own process to colorizing movies. It's quite laborious, but I managed to get a few shots from GIANT MONSTER GAMERA colored, which was pretty nifty.

Mr. X · Post by **Mr. X** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:19 am

Tamura wrote:I thought COZZILLA was actually very innovative. How many colorized movies can you name before 1977, besides very early, stencil-colored fare like THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY and A TRIP TO THE MOON?

Yeah, it wasn't that bad. I've only seen a couple pictures, so I guess I don't have room to judge...

I've created my own process to colorizing movies. It's quite laborious, but I managed to get a few shots from GIANT MONSTER GAMERA colored, which was pretty nifty.

Can I sees it?

Black Lion · Post by **Black Lion** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:24 am

http://mlook.ru/0ePtjMbETOI/godzilla_di ... z27VjofVYW

Cozzilla actually looks pretty horrible by any standards.... they just threw a rainbow stripe over the whole thing. Nothing is even close to being a correct color.

It seems that Toho colorized parts of the 54 film for quite a few Heisei trailers, I just found one from GvD

Tamura · Post by **Tamura** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:45 pm

Mr. X wrote:Can I sees it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZrEqyPRltI

Still needs a little work...

Mr. X · Post by **Mr. X** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:09 pm

Tamura wrote:
Mr. X wrote:Can I sees it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZrEqyPRltI

Still needs a little work...

I'm derailing the thread, but

Jesus Christ that's awesome! Looks like it was filmed in color! Great Work!

Tamura · Post by **Tamura** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:17 pm

^ Thank you! I just need to find a way to color small details, like eyes and whatnot.

Julia Bristow · Post by **Julia Bristow** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:48 pm

for a "colorized" version, Cozzilla is pretty bizarre. It throws in a whole bunch of stock footage from alot of other sources and the color changes (it depends on the scene) and for what it is, Cozzilla is pretty entertaining in a WTF way.

Tamura · Post by **Tamura** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:58 pm

Cozzi should do COZZILLA RAIDS AGAIN as a sequel to COZZILLA, and if it's successful, create KING KONG VS. COZZILLA, featuring '70s-'80s Italian progressive rock music and loads of mondo film stock footage inserted into the Faro Island expedition sequence. If he won't complete this undertaking, I will.

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