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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
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Subject: Re: Re: First Color Films
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 18:23:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 18:23:39 1985
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> One interesting fact about color films.  The process was discovered in
> the middle of the filming of the Wizard of Oz.  They decided not to 
> reshoot all the parts they had already done.  That's why the scenes in
> Kansas are in black and white and you don't have any color until they
> hit Munchkinland.
> 
> ellen bart

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Is this really true?  I always thought that it was a  cinematic  tech-
nique in which the drabness of ``reality'' is put in contrast with the
``fantasy'' of a little girl.  Now, I can't exactly  remember,  but  I
believe  that the scenes in Kansas _after_ the return from Oz are also
in color.  This says to me that Dorothy has discovered a new  approach
to life; she is now willing to see the beauty of the real world.

I would imagine that all of the scenes which  needed  the  Kansas  set
would  have  been  shot  in  the same stretch of time.  If this is the
case, there seems to be little support for the  idea  that  the  color
process was developed in the midst of shooting the film.  Corrections?
Comments?
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Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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