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Barry Sandrew, president of Legend Films.

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 was a series of colorized special editions of cult films seperate from other Legend releases. The company released four films under the Off Color Films banner: Reefer Madness, Night of the Living Dead, and Carnival of Souls. In 2005, the series became known only as Legend's cult film series. While House on Haunted Hill had an Off Color Films logo on its back cover, the disc itself did not have the Off Color logo prefacing the menu. Starting with Plan 9 from Outer Space, and all references to Off Color Films were removed, and the seperate website for Legend's cult titles became non-operational. The discs in the series 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 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." [1]

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