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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?
Jeff Wrangler:
I remember the surprise I got the first time I saw The Wizard of Oz on television after we got our first color television. I'd had no idea the entire movie wasn't in black and white! :laugh:
Shuggy:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 27, 2007, 09:08:59 am ---I remember the surprise I got the first time I saw The Wizard of Oz on television after we got our first color television. I'd had no idea the entire movie wasn't in black and white! :laugh:
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It's a pretty wonderful effect even when you know the movie's in colour.
It reminds me of the first times I heard stereo sound. I had originally been opposed to it on the grounds that spatial separation is not essential to music (and it's not, but stereo just doubles the bandwidth, as we'd say nowadays). The first time I heard it through headphones ("For unto us" from Handel's Messiah) I cried.
HerrKaiser:
You guys are ahead of me....I didn't see color TV until the early 70s and STILL have not seen Wizard of Oz color sequences. time to go to the rental store.
But, seeing black and white productions brings back wonderful memories. Most TV shows weren't even filmed in color in 1963. in the mid 60s, NBC created a logo with the peacock whose "tail" moved in what was obviously a wonderful display of color to promote their shows... "brought to you in living color".
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on April 27, 2007, 07:07:58 pm ---You guys are ahead of me....I didn't see color TV until the early 70s and STILL have not seen Wizard of Oz color sequences. time to go to the rental store.
But, seeing black and white productions brings back wonderful memories. Most TV shows weren't even filmed in color in 1963. in the mid 60s, NBC created a logo with the peacock whose "tail" moved in what was obviously a wonderful display of color to promote their shows... "brought to you in living color".
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Boy, that phrase brings back memories: "brought to you in living color"! Here's another: Remember "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color"? ;D
As for television shows filmed in black and white, the first season, 1964-1965, of my childhood favorite, Fess Parker's Daniel Boone, was released on DVD late last year; it's in black and white.
2robots4u:
This is in reply to comments about the use of "bloomin'" and "bloody" in My Fair Lady: On stage "bloody" is definitely used, however, the cast recording opted not to use that word, as did the movie. "Bloody" was not a widely heard phrase in America at that time, so I don't believe it was a shocked; in England it is as common as dirt and also would not have been a shocked. It was many years later that I learned that "bloody" was a vulgar word, and used it sometimes. I guess that might explain why so many people thought I was British!
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