is that in the late 80s Ted Turner would do a colorized version of the 1942 film which got him blasted really hard by Ebert who has always hated colorization (and never had a shred of sympathy for those who liked it, openly deriding them) and who said that the public rejected colorization, claiming "Ted Turner ended up with a warehouse full of colorized
Casablanca tapes to prove it."
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/casablanca-gets-colorized-but-dont-play-it-again-ted I'm pretty sure this is also tied to the rumor that Orson Welles said "keep Ted Turner and his god-d*mned Crayolas away from my movie," even though the incident was from the late 80s and Welles died at the beginning of the decade.