Film colorization is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia, or other monochrome moving-picture images. It may be done as a special effect, to "modernize" black-and-white films, or to restore color segregation. The first examples date from the early 20th century, but colorization has become common with the advent of digital image processing.
The 1935 fantasy film She, colorized.
Night of the Living Dead, colorized in 1986...
... and colorized in 2004.
A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and its 1870 sequel Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites, and return to earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis.
The landing on the eye of the Moon, the movie's most iconic scene
Georges Méliès
Stereoscope card showing a scene from Jacques Offenbach's Le voyage dans la lune
Méliès (at left) in the studio where A Trip to the Moon was filmed