institutions birth_place significant_advance nationality birth_date article_title name
colorization inc. . vancouver , b.c. film colorization canada 2 september 1938 wilson markle
 wilson markle
wilson markle

wilson markle -lrb- born september 2 , 1938 -rrb- 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. , which was co-owned by hal roach studios and international hrs industries .
the word `` colorization '' later became a generic name .
