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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: First Color Films
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 01:50:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 01:50:41 1985
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In article <1117@hou5e.UUCP> elb@hou5e.UUCP (Ellen Bart) writes:
>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.

A simple examination of some dates will reveal that this is false.  "The
Wizard of Oz" was made in 1939.  The three strip Technicolor process used
in "The Wizard of Oz" was first used, in a feature, in "Becky Sharp", in
1935.  Other color processes had been in use for over ten years.  The mixture
of black-and-white and color footage in "The Wizard of Oz" is purely an
artistic decision, and a rather clever one.  Now, in "If...", color shots
and black-and-white ones are mixed in no special order.  This occurred because
Lindsay Anderson, the director, ran low on money half way through, and
BW stock was cheaper than color.
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        			Peter Reiher
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