Editing Woody Allen (section)

== Film activism and preservation ==
{{main|The Film Foundation}}

In 1987, Allen joined [[Ginger Rogers]], [[Sydney Pollack]], and [[Miloš Forman]] at a [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary committee]] hearing where they testified against [[Ted Turner]]'s and other companies' colorizing films without the artists' consent.<ref name="Film Stars Protest Coloring">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/13/movies/film-stars-protest-coloring.html|title= Film Stars Protest Coloring|newspaper= [[The New York Times]]|date= May 13, 1987|access-date= May 20, 2020|last1= Dowd|first1= Maureen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?56772-1/colorization-black-white-movies|title= Colorization of Black-and-White Movies|website= [[C-Span]]|access-date= May 20, 2020}}</ref> Only one senator, [[Patrick Leahy]], was present for the testimony. Allen testified:
{{blockquote|If directors had their way, we would not let our films be tampered with in any way—broken up for commercial or shortened or colorized. But we've fought the other things without much success, and now colorization—because it's so horrible and preposterous and more acutely noticeable by audiences—is the straw that broke the camel's back.... The presumption that colorizers are doing him [the director] a favor and bettering his movie is a transparent attempt to justify the mutilation of art for a few extra dollars.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1987/08/13/true-colors/|title= True Colors|website= [[New York Review of Books]]|access-date= May 20, 2020|last1= Allen|first1= Woody}}</ref>}}

Allen also spoke about his decisions to make films in black and white, such as ''[[Manhattan (1979 film)|Manhattan]]'', ''[[Stardust Memories]]'', ''[[Broadway Danny Rose]]'', and ''[[Zelig]]''. Film director [[John Huston]] appeared in a pretaped video, and Rogers read a statement by [[Jimmy Stewart]] criticizing the colorization of his film ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''.<ref name="Film Stars Protest Coloring" />

In 1990, [[The Film Foundation]] was founded as a nonprofit [[film preservation]] organization that collaborates with film studios to restore prints of old or damaged films to meet the vision of the original filmmaker. Allen was part of the founding and sat on the foundation's original board of directors alongside [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Robert Altman]], [[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Clint Eastwood]], [[Stanley Kubrick]], [[George Lucas]], [[Sydney Pollack]], [[Robert Redford]], and [[Steven Spielberg]].<ref>{{Cite web |last = Cruikshank |first = Douglas |date = 2006-10-19 |title = Martin Scorsese: Teaching Visual Literacy |publisher = [[George Lucas Educational Foundation]] |url = https://www.edutopia.org/martin-scorsese-teaching-visual-literacy |access-date = 2014-11-03 |website = [[Edutopia]]}}</ref>