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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: My Annual Appeal (please read)
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 17:57:51 EST
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> 
> Well, you can always turn off the color on your TV set,
There are some TV sets that don't let you do that;  I own one.
O.K.  I know it's a minor quibble.  More importantly, the
the addition of the colour changes the B&W picture.
I would be very upset if someone did that to a film like
The Third Man, which won an Oscar for Cinematography, or Casablanca.

> Or you could decide to give it a chance--who knows, you might
> even like it better than what you remember.
I did (Miracle on 34th Str)  and I didn't like it.  The colour was poor
and no attempt was made to colour the backgrounds in any large scale
scene.
> After all, if you grew up when TV was primarily black & white, and you'd
> gotten used to seeing, say, Gone_With_the_Wind that way, would you have
> been upset the first time you saw it in color?
> 
Gone with the Wind was never shown when TV was primarily B&W.  Nor were
any other colour movies.  It was one of the ways cinema tried to compete
with TV.  The argument is specious anyway.  If a film was made in colour
then when you see it in colour you experience everything the film maker
intended.  If you see it in B&W you are missing out so how could you
be disappointed at finally seeing it in colour?
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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