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Laer Surtep 
It is the absolute truth and as I said just look at a b+w film that has been colourised. If you're not familiar with the technology involved then read up on it. The blacks, whites and the grey scale can be converted to their actual colours and is done frame by frame. It is not 100% perfect but it's certainly good enough to see what the original sets and clothes were like. Besides, there are colour stills of sets and actors to show what it looked like.
In case you're actually serious, I'm gonna let you in on something- everything you said is wrong. Colorizing does not restore the actual colors, it is a process of adding color in. The colorizer picks the color, and choses the tint to match the shade of gray. For actual filming, there were extensive screen tests done on everything in the wardrobe to figure out how it looked in black and white (on in their minds, just how it looked on screen). The outfits that resulted could be flat out garish color-wise, but they looked great on screen. In addition, there were filters used in almost every shot, which helped get tones right, and helped keep them distinct. A blue filter would make reds appear much darker then they were, which aids in contrast. If you see a shot of an apple tree where you can actually see the apples, it was probably shot with a blue or a green filter, since in real life, those apples would be just as vibrant as the greens or the blues in the shot, and would be about the same shade of gray.
Colorizing is just that- adding color to something that has none. You either have to know what color something was originally (the sky tends to be colored blue), or you have to make a reasonable guess or an artistic decision.
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