Post by leesilm on Oct 20, 2017 17:39:55 GMT
I know the TV series DARK SHADOWS (the original one) went back and forth, sometimes in the same episode, due to cost. When I originally watched it, I never noticed. Years later, they were having a marathon on some local cable channel and I was at a hotel in a town that rolled up the streets at 7:30, so I stayed up all night watching. I was amazed how often there would be black and white as Caroline was talking to someone in one scene, then Barnabas would be in color during the next scene, then he'd be in black'n'white again while talking to the little nephew.
Usually though, I'd have to agree with the other posters- it seems like it is used for style (like the first few minutes of THE FALL (2006), or the whole YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN movie) rather than as a cost-cutting measure. I always liked watching black and white movies, and sometimes have skipped out on buying DVD/digital copies because they've been colorized. There's just a charm about the older black and white films that you lose when you colorize them (even with the newer, more accurate, and prettier way they are doing it where Errol Flynn doesn't have more rouge than Miss Piggy).
Usually though, I'd have to agree with the other posters- it seems like it is used for style (like the first few minutes of THE FALL (2006), or the whole YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN movie) rather than as a cost-cutting measure. I always liked watching black and white movies, and sometimes have skipped out on buying DVD/digital copies because they've been colorized. There's just a charm about the older black and white films that you lose when you colorize them (even with the newer, more accurate, and prettier way they are doing it where Errol Flynn doesn't have more rouge than Miss Piggy).