These days, kids identify them by the aspect ratio.

  • 🇨🅾️🇰🅰️N🇪@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When I was a kid I used to think black and white meant the TV show or whatever used to be in color but since it got old it turned black and white. My thought process was they changed color just like old people’s hair turns grey… This was 35 years ago before internet.

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      Had you seen The Wizard of Oz at the time? I’m curious how things went with that. Was the beginning B&W because it was the earliest part of the movie, then the newer part of the money was in color, because it wasn’t as old?

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        Yeah but it’s more complicated than that. They colorized a lot of movies after the fact, the colors were always extremely bright, kinda like when people would color their hair extremely bright. On the contrary I’m not very bright

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        No, that was just for effect. Notice that all the scenes playing in Kansas are B&W (even the ones at the end), and all of Oz was in Color. It gave the place an extra kind of quality above the B&W pictures they were used to. I have heard that people in the cinemas gasped in surprise when the switch happened.