how did they ever get 'gone with the wind' in color?

[jjyiz28]

tanks guys fo rthe good responses. i was just wonrdering because i also bought street car named desire, shot in 1950, and its black and white. was just wondering how a 1939 is in color and a film in 1950 is black and white.

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: jjyiz28
tanks guys fo rthe good responses. i was just wonrdering because i also bought street car named desire, shot in 1950, and its black and white. was just wondering how a 1939 is in color and a film in 1950 is black and white.

black and white film is HELLA cheaper.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

wasn't it shot in technicolor originally?

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
wasn't it shot in technicolor originally?

Apparently not

Color: Black and White

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Cheats and hacks obviously.

 

[0roo0roo]

didn't it use 3 strips of film to get color? kinda unwieldly.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
didn't it use 3 strips of film to get color? kinda unwieldly.

Plus with 3 strips, you're losing a lot of light since it's split across 3 negatives. As a result the lights have to be cranked up on the sets, so with the Wizard of Oz for example, it was said that the set was over 100F hot at times(and let's not talk about the poor guys in the bigger costumes). This made it all very expensive, but because each color was on its own strip, it created the uniquely bright colors that no other film type does naturally(and it's no surprise that Willy Wonka was filmed in Technicolor because of this).

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: jjyiz28
tanks guys fo rthe good responses. i was just wonrdering because i also bought street car named desire, shot in 1950, and its black and white. was just wondering how a 1939 is in color and a film in 1950 is black and white.

A Streetcar Named Desire was purposefully filmed in black and white for artistic and monetary reasons, a practice that was common even with big-budget movies well into the '60s.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
they used the microsoft paint program to color each single frame.

Yes but it was just in beta. Pretty good job.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
While we're on the subject, how did they do that Color of War series on the history channel?

Same thing-- color film.