In color


Thats pretty weird, since Enter the Dragon (1973) was originally black and white. Hapkido is 1972 movie. Btw, when colors start to come in Asian theaters? If I remember right, Temple of the Red Lotus (1965) was first colourful Asian movie. One-Armed Swordsman came in 1967 and I think its colors. Maybe my point is, when colors came to tv? The Wizard of Oz came in 1939 with colors, but if you had black and white tv, theres no colors. I think color tvs came in 1974. The Kid (1950) doesnt have colors and its the movie, which made Bruce Lee popular in China. Thunderstorm (1957) doesnt have colors as well, starring again Bruce Lee.

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In Hollywood, movies made for the cinema had been filmed in colour since the 1920s, although it was expensive compared with black and white and so it was usually reserved for the major studios and their biggest pictures. In 1939, Wizard of Oz was filmed in colour, but Casablanca was black and white. Many films were made in black and white right up until the 1970s. In Asian cinema, as in other world markets, the same rules applied. The earliest colour films made in Hong Kong go back to the 1950s.
But your post also refers to colour on TV. In the US, the main networks were proudly boasting of all-colour schedules for their primetime programming from the late 1960s. Programs were still broadcast in black and white on some local channels into the 1980s. There is, however, a delay between the channels being broadcast in colour... and people at home having a colour TV set to watch them with. That said, in America and Europe, black and white TVs had gone by the 1980s - now you'll only see them for CCTV, etc.
You started off by saying Enter the Dragon was black and white. It was colour when I saw it. It was a "big budget" Hollywood funded movie filmed in Hong Kong and had a lot of money put into it. Of course it was in colour. Did you mean something else?

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