Woody Allen expresses himself beautifully. Thank you for posting this!

The Founder Fathers never envisioned a politician such as this to be seated in office in 2023, 36 years after this testimony was given.

"We enjoy your films, particularly the early funny ones". Stardust Memories

3:42 "If members of the public had the right to demand alterations to suit their taste, the world would have no real art." Well said and so true!

I was not aware of these hearings. Very interesting and thorny moral issues involved. Very impressed by Woody Allen's elequent argument against someone other than the director colorizing his original work. Also impressed by Senator Leahy's knowledge of movies and his challenges to the director's arguments, particularly noting Woody's doctoring historical footage ( Calvin Coolidge ) in the movie Zelig. Also had always thought it hypocritical of John Huston to object to having his movies tampered with while largely making films based on novels who's story line he would change. However Sydney Pollack countered with a fair argument that the novel itself was not tampered with, just the adaptation of it to a different medium. Very interesting and complicated moral and artistic freedom issues involved. Thank you for posting this.

Roald dahl today….

14:40 Current Roald Dahl controversy

Incredible that they have to defend black and white in court. Anybody know what happened after this?

Good Bless Woody Allen

Articulate as ever uncle Woody.

It's great to see Woody being serious. And just in case you didn't know, Mia herself is the child abuser!

I am astonished how many of Gen Z will literally not even LOOK at a black and white film.

Does colouring it make the black and white one no longer available?

I love Wooody Allen he's an interesting brilliant man.

In the end it was none other than old blue eyes himself who stuck a knife in the heart of colorization of old black and white films They tried colorizing one of his films, and the computer got frank's eye color wrong. When he found out he was beyond furious and launched a scathing attack on colorization of classic films (he called it "cultural vandalism") and that was the end of it.

Key Largo is way better in color.

What none of these esteemed directors considered was the likely emergence of a technology that would allow well-trained consumers to colorize movies themselves, supported by an emergent culture that had zero interest in respecting copyright *or* public domain. Sad. We have met the enemy, and it’s the audience.

The argument is only partly valid.. The directors didn´t have the technology. It was not a choice.

Did they testify against child predators?? Id think that’s more important. Woody go home!