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Post by kims on Feb 28, 2023 1:25:43 GMT
misleading subject title, but lacked what else to call this. Does anyone else remember a film as color, then rewatching be surprised it is black and or vice versa? I'll give two John Ford films as examples because I'm watching THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. I always remember it in color and shocked again this evening that it is black and white. I remember THE SEARCHERS in black and white, yet it is color. And if no one else has experienced this, do I need professional help?  |
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Post by gerald424 on Feb 28, 2023 2:37:47 GMT
You aren't crazy. I have had this experience also. I can't think of any particular films. But, it does happen.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 28, 2023 5:06:00 GMT
misleading subject title, but lacked what else to call this. Does anyone else remember a film as color, then rewatching be surprised it is black and or vice versa? I'll give two John Ford films as examples because I'm watching THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. I always remember it in color and shocked again this evening that it is black and white. I remember THE SEARCHERS in black and white, yet it is color. And if no one else has experienced this, do I need professional help?
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Post by Fading Fast on Feb 28, 2023 8:21:07 GMT
I grew up in the 1970s/early '80s watching movies on a B&W TV set, so for many years, I had no idea that a film like "Gone With the Wind" from the '30s was in color or that one like "Paper Moon" from the '70s wasn't.
Because my first experience with many films was watching them in B&W, to this day, I can still get mixed up trying to remember whether a film is in color or not. Also, other than for a few, I enjoy even color films in B&W without any issue and I love original B&W films exactly as they are.
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 28, 2023 17:12:11 GMT
Like Fading Fast up there, my experience was similar although much earlier. Every movie I saw on TV growing up in the late '50's-early 60's was black & white. I never saw the change when Dorothy opened the door of her farmhouse(after landing in Oz) until the early '70's when along with buying my first house I also bought my first color TV set. But I never experienced remembering a movie being in color and later finding out it never was, or vice-versa. But I have gone through watching a favorite movie and waiting for my favorite scene and not seeing it. I'd wonder why it was cut, but in talking to others who also like the movie and claim to have seen it "hundreds" of times, tell me they recall no such scene in the movie at all.
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 3, 2023 15:28:58 GMT
I recently rewatched THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY during that composer's theme or whatever it was and was surprised it was in color, as I remembered it in black and white.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 3, 2023 17:11:21 GMT
As it was originally shot in color, the only ways I can think of is that the last time you watched it was on an old black-and-white TV set, or that your recalled memories are often(for some strange reason) in black- and-white.
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