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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: My Annual Appeal (please read)
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 15:57:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 15:57:49 1985
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> /* Written  1:53 pm  Dec 10, 1985 by josh@ism70 in ISM780:net.movies */
> If I remember correctly, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is now released in
> color using the computer coloration process.  It is indeed a
> classic and it would be interesting to see the color rendition.
> /* End of text from ISM780:net.movies */
> 
> I haven't heard of It's_a_Wonderful_Life being computer-colored. A_Miracle_
> on_34th_Street was done, however. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and
> thoroughly enjoyed it. (Just saw ...Wonderful_Life this past weekend, and
> it was in B&W.) Some people have a disdain for the computerized color,
> feeling it's an affrontery to the "purity" of the original. Personally,
> I don't have a problem with it. I think there are certain films that were shot
> in black & white simply because that was the default; they didn't really
> *use* the black & white film to its best advantage. 

I,for one, would like to go on record (big deal) as voting against color
being added to black and white films. I think part of the appeal to old
films is the fact that they were the films I grew up watching. I look 
forward to watching _Miracle_on_34th_Street every Christmas and when it
came out this year it was in (gasp) color. It borders on be robbed of
part of your past. 

The people in charge have said that I can't watch in black and white and
I miss it I guess.