These days, kids identify them by the aspect ratio.

  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Had you seen The Wizard of Oz at the time? I’m curious how things went with that. Was the beginning B&W because it was the earliest part of the movie, then the newer part of the money was in color, because it wasn’t as old?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but it’s more complicated than that. They colorized a lot of movies after the fact, the colors were always extremely bright, kinda like when people would color their hair extremely bright. On the contrary I’m not very bright

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      No, that was just for effect. Notice that all the scenes playing in Kansas are B&W (even the ones at the end), and all of Oz was in Color. It gave the place an extra kind of quality above the B&W pictures they were used to. I have heard that people in the cinemas gasped in surprise when the switch happened.