The point misser

Spotted this while going through some Tumblr archives:

This is from a scene in The Tingler, one of William Castle’s gimmick horror films (the first film about LSD, too). And it’s a black & white film. And I’ve seen black & white stills from black & white films colourised before, so I’m not really surprised by this one. But Castle actually filmed this scene in colour. The woman goes into the bathroom and hallucinates this blood-covered arm rising out of a bath full of blood, and the blood is red on screen; to get the effect, Castle shot this bit in colour but painted the whole set white and grey and black (and gave the actress similar makeup) to make the red splatter stand out. This is how it actually looks (as screenshotted from my blu-ray copy; the picture above is evidently a production photo from a different angle):

Imperfect (the colour film was of evidently poorer quality than the actual b&w stock) but not ineffective. In any case, though, colourising a picture of this scene from the film strikes me as a bit odd, cos the point of it is that it is actually in colour. Judith Evelyn wasn’t wearing a red dressing gown. I wonder how old this colouring job is (there’s some obvious damage to the picture) and how it was done.