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From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: My Annual Appeal (please read)
Message-ID: <980@ccice5.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 12:29:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 26 12:29:44 1985
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Summary: slight disagreement

In article <1894@saber.UUCP>, msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow) writes:
> I would be very upset if someone did that to a film like
> The Third Man, which won an Oscar for Cinematography, or Casablanca.

Get ready to be upset.  They are colorizing Casablanca.  But from one
who has seen the B&W version 15 times, I must say I am looking forward
to it.  The only scene I really worried about is the airport at the end.

> 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?

I grew up in a house that had a B&W TV as long as I lived there.  I got my
first color set in 1975.  I know that GWTW, and many other "Color Classics"
had been on before then.  And I also know that I was not out of the norm
with my friends and relatives.  But I do agree with the rest of your
argument.