The films run the gamut from black-and-white classics to last year's blockbusters.

This 1957 black-and-white sci-fi classic can be seen as a cautionary tale about the dangers of atomic radiation.

That old black-and-white classic, for instance, may suddenly pop up on your home screen in soupy colors just this side of gray.

Starting in mid-February, it will show movies of relatively recent vintage that explore darker regions of the soul, evoking the black-and-white classics of the 1940's and 50's.

There was always Mr. Hero and Mr. Greenspan's original idea of coming up with the digital age's answer to the black-and-white classics now in the public television vaults.

I rummaged through the videotape collection, which consisted of a few old black-and-white classics, a few exercise tapes, and some hand-labeled tapes marked "Psy-Ops, Lecture Series."

Some stocked up on art-house French films and black-and-white classics.

Many became black-and-white classics still seen on afternoon television here.

They showed the black-and-white classics "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" and "The Marx Brothers' Coconuts."

Film critic Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times remarked that while colourising is not a good idea for most black-and-white classics, it was perfect in this particular instance.