Wilson Markle (born September 2, 1938) is a Canadian engineer who invented the film colorization process in 1970. His first company, Image Transform, colored pictures from the Apollo space program to make a full-color television presentation for NASA.
His method used computers to assign predetermined colors to shades of gray in each scene.
In 1983, he founded Colorization Inc. The word "colorization" will become later a generic name.
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