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Surprised that a film made in 1953 with an illustrious cast…

posted 9 months ago by Techto (1388)
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was shot in black and white. The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939 and Laurence Olivier even managed to shoot Henry V in color almost a decade earlier in Britain while WWII was ongoing. Would the decision to make the film in B&W likely have been an artistic choice or budgetary consideration?

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18433) 8 months ago

They were still making black&white movies regularly up through the mid-1960s.

[–] Techto (1388) 8 months ago

Thanks. Was it mainly a budgetary consideration?

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18433) 8 months ago

Couldn't say. If I had to guess, it would be keeping in the visual style of the movies that it is trying to be a spoof. Like The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Key Largo all those movies Bogart did in the forties.

[–] Techto (1388) 8 months ago

Thanks.