Career
His first company, Image Transform, colored pictures from the Apollo space program to make a full-color television presentation for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. His method used computers to assign predetermined colors to shades of gray in each scene. In 1983, he founded Colorization Incorporated., which was co-owned by Hal Roach Studios and International HRS Industries. The word "colorization" later became a generic name.
An application for the first patent on the process was made by Colorization Incorporated. on 11 July 1983, listing Wilson Markle and Christopher Mitchell as inventors.
lieutenant was issued on 1 December 1987 (United States Patent 4710805).
