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I swear I saw this movie in B+W

posted 13 years ago by hlippman
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Now I am watching it in color yet my mother always told me it was in color. I swear I've ONLY seen it in black and white!

Someone tell me I'm not crazy lol.

[–] mark-1589 11 years ago

Perhaps you saw it on a B&W TV? It was nearly 1970 before we got a colored TV. Every year, when the Wizard of Oz was shown, we had to go watch it at my grandmother's because she had a colored TV and we didn't.

[–] Fedorevsky 10 years ago

Perhaps you saw it on a B&W TV? It was nearly 1970 before we got a colored TV. Every year, when the Wizard of Oz was shown, we had to go watch it at my grandmother's because she had a colored TV and we didn't.

The guy you're responding to was 27 years old back in 2011 I highly doubt he watched this film on tv back in 1970 before he was even born.Like you he's probably just suffering from some sort of major brain malfunction.

It was nearly 1970 before we got a colored TV.

Why would the color of your set have anything to do with the programming shown on it being broadcast in B&W or in color? The color or lack of color on the frame of the tv-set is completely irrellevant to a discussion about a film being shot in color or B&W. Besides tv's were sold in several different colors before they started broadcasting in color.

Hidyho!

[–] Fedorevsky 10 years ago

Now I am watching it in color yet my mother always told me it was in color. I swear I've ONLY seen it in black and white!

Someone tell me I'm not crazy lol.

Well, I hate to be the one to have to tell you, but you're either crazy or you need to lay of the booze and\or drugs for a while.

I'M 27!

In that case you should probably get your head examined.

Hidyho!

[–] ninthcentury 10 years ago

Maybe you should have read the other posts in this thread. Several people also remembered watching the movie on colour TVs though it was being broadcast in b&w. I'm going to guess that at some point it was re-recorded and distributed as a b&w print for broadcast in b&w during the early sixties--one way to make the thing available at lower cost--and that lazy broadcast studios continued using the same re-recording.

Using your brain is hard work, I admit, but it's better than just calling someone crazy or mentally incapacitated.

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[–] george-695-323782 8 years ago

Yes, in the 50s and 60s color films were commonly broadcast in b&w by local stations. I collect 16mm films and there are a lot of b&w prints of color films out there.

[–] SinemaGirl 8 years ago

And as for the appearance of colourisation/colorisation, consider it was a non 3D version of a 3D movie, there was bound to be weird colour artifacts. Also likely if a Studio wasn't using a Industry Standard colour film process

There would be no weird colour artifacts from "Dial M" because it was shot in Eastmancolor (rebranded as WarnerColor), a standard of the industry at the time along with Technicolor, and was designed to be shown with polarized 3-D projection using two synchronized projectors. Either the left eye or right eye print could be projected separately as a 2D film and appear perfectly normal.

[–] JeePee 10 years ago

You are not crazy.
I saw it here in Austria two times (within 2 to 3 years distance) 4 to 5 years ago and both times the movie was shown in B/W. This is not to argue that the movie was originally shot in B/W. Obviously two versions exist.

[–] denis-38 8 years ago

It was always, always a color film.

[–] holierthanpope 7 years ago

Yes, it's most likely because ov B&W TV set.

A similar story (rather disastrous) has happened to The Beatles' 'Magical mystery tour' TV premiere.
The movie was incredibly colourful,
but they've shown it in B&W, averting most of the viewers.

[–] bobbydallas (8105) 15 days ago

it's the Mandela Effect

i also am 100% convinced it was B+W but all the evidence is it was shot and released in color.
weird but true