What's up with just a small portion of the movie being shot in color? Was the processing so expensive they only did a small piece, leaving the rest to B&W?
I find it distracting, as once the color scenes have been shown, the B&W becomes too obvious.
i quite agree - i didnt understand the decision to shoot a few scenes in colour. i thought perhaps i imagined it so i am quite glad you confirmed it. however the colour scenes were rather brilliant visually.
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Maybe they thought it would help if people could see that her "Alice blue gown" was actually blue. THey wanted her to make a grand entrance in that costume, and the color helped.
"Well, for once the rich white man is in control!" C. M. Burns
hullo clothes-off (jolly good name!). your reasoning makes perfect sense and i daresay you are correct. sort of reminds me of 'portrait of jenny' - the only scene in full colour was at the very end when they show the portrait of jenny.
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Also for impact like the Picture of Dorian Gray,
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Yes color was decidedly more expensive than black and white and used sparingly, except for what were considered special productions like Gone With the Wind. As the years rolled by color increased, but only very slowly, until the late 50s, when only so called atmospheric, gritty pictures were being made in black and white
shareStrange how the rest of the cast(50+ people) in the colour scene are wearing Black and White even the women. Even all the flowers are white.
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