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Legend Films, a San Diego-based company, was founded in August 2001. The company specializes in the restoration and colorization of classic black and white films for DVD, HDTV and theatrical release. Legend also produces the DVD, designs the packaging and menus, and creates all value-added materials, including interviews and commentary from the original cast and crew when possible. Their primary goal is to make their attempts look as realistic as possible, in addition to letting viewers choose between the original black and white and new colorized versions without changing discs. The company has also created color effects for recent films, such as Martin Scorsese's The Aviator
.

Off Color Films is a series of colorized special editions of cult films like Reefer Madness, Night of the Living Dead
, Carnival of Souls
, House on Haunted Hill
and Plan 9 from Outer Space
that have been restored by Legend. These discs include audio commentary by Mike Nelson as a primary special feature.

Legend Films has also released a colorized Three Stooges DVD which includes wraparound introductions by Mike and fellow Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast members Bill Corbett and Kevin Wagner Murphy, as The Film Crew. Currently, Legend Films is releasing about two films a month and president Barry Sandrew hopes to increase the output to another film per month in the next year. But while the company has plenty of films to colorize, he insists there are some black and white films that should stay that way, such as Citizen Kane
and Casablanca
. "There are some films I would say no to colorizing. Unless the original creative people participated in the color design."

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