I just read in IMDB Trivia that the "Schapel" was built on rented land and was torn down after the movie was finished. So sad!
It looked so quaint and yet so beautiful with the hand painted windows (by the nuns), etc. I wish the interior shots of the chapel could've been filmed in color; the effect would be like when Dorothy opens the door and enters Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz.
I felt sad, too! It's a shame that the chapel wasn't built (to stay) in a community that needed one, like in the movie.
I like your thought of filming it in color. I just saw The Secret Garden last week. The first time we see the refurbished garden it is in striking color, like when we first see Munchkinland.
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I understand that the movie was made on a small budget also. I guess color would have been out of the question.
shareI grew up in the fifties. All I saw was black and white for years. I'm used to it. Also, I love old movies of the thirties and forties. Not many of them are in color.
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Perhaps it was more than just budget considerations that led to this object lesson for movie making being filmed in black-and-white. Although they do indeed share a lot of character traits, you'd be hard pressed to find a more different pair of people than Mother Maria and Homer Smith (and skin color was probably the least of those differences). Yet they still found a way to come together, and the black-and-white photography, it seems, serves to underline all that.
Although I am not a member of any religious organization or denomination, I still love this movie.
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I just read in IMDB Trivia that the "Schapel" was built on rented land and was torn down after the movie was finished. So sad!