The distinction between tinting and full color is not lost on me. Tinting is a very old technique practiced from the very earliest films. It is also not lost on me that Eastman color stock has different fading characteristics than Technicolor. What is missing from Joey Schwartz's comphrensive answer is that Technicolor did have its own fading characteristics. Even though black and white separations are relatively stable, the prints made from the separations are subject to color fading effect of bright projection lamps each time the film is shown. Forty-five years later any color print -- Technicolor, Kodacolor, or whatever -- will display the fading. What happens in colorization or transfer of films to videotape is another story, one that Joey has sketched accurately. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <[log in to unmask]> <PRYLUCK@TEMPLEVM>