As we play catch-up after the holidays, we bring you film colorization! We've all seen old films, originally only available in B&W, re-released in their colorized version. Whether a fan of this or not, it's another example of the inventiveness of Canadians.

Wilson Markle is credited with inventing 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 innovative method assigned predetermined colors to shades of gray in each scene.

In 1983, he founded Colorization Inc. and in the same year, applied for a patent on his process. In 1987, the patent was issued listing Wilson Markle and Christopher Mitchell as inventors.