I'm watching it right now. This is the second time I've watched it this year. The b&w doesn't bother me. It's so crisp and clear, and carefully lit. In many ways, the image quality (and lighting!) is superior to that of BBC colour productions from the same time, and soon afterward.
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shareI've just finished watching this, followed by the DVD extra, some of which were in colour. After 26 episodes of them in B&W the colour just didn't look right.
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I believe it was recorded using 625 lines, rather than the old 405 line standard, as it was screened on BBC2 (which could only ever broadcast 625 line images). Colour broadcasts on BBC2 utilised the same 625 line standard so it would have looked just as crisp in colour - much like the same decade's Vanity Fair.
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shareI know what you mean, I am a huge fan old movies but I find the lighting and make up etc are made to suit B and W productions.
Sometimes, in colour, everything looks fake and the costumes look un-lived in if you know what I mean.
I saw some coloured stills and thought maybe it would have been 'nice' (!)
I think the cold austere environment which these people lived in is really driven home in B&W, with the actors being the only animated 'colourful' things to focus on and bring the story to life.....maybe it's just as well since I really love this beautifully written novel.
I agree. Victorian morality was very black and white as well, so this suited the series.
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I'm sorry, but b&w hurts my eyes. So I could never get myself through this version, no matter how much I wanted to. Thank goodness that a remake in color was made in 2002-2003.
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