This was an interesting discussion and I can see both sides. I had not particularly thought of color as being an important characteristic of the work before, but it's true that a colorized film is different from a film that was originally done in color and this distinction ought to be made clear. Playing devil's advocate, I imagine that those who produce colorized films see their work as enhancement and not damage, but I think Martha is right to point to the general need to bring out characteristics both of the expression or manifestation and of the work (or perhaps in a stricter reading of FRBR, the original expression/manifestation?). This problem has been highlighted for me again in some recent discussions by a couple of OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.) task forces lamenting how poorly we record characteristics of the original film like original language and date of release even though we know that people want to search, sort, and limit by this type of information. So even if FRBR does not say these sort of things are technically attributes of the work, perhaps we should somehow privilege the characteristics of the first expression (manifestation?). Or perhaps there should be more attributes on the pattern of the date of the work, which FRBR defines as "the date (normally the year) the work was originally created." It seems to me that these characteristics are important to record in a consistent, retrievable way.
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