What year/decade do you picture the world in color??

aircooled

Lifer
Oct 10, 2000
15,965
1
0
Using personal past photos as a guide, the 60's and higher are in color. all other years are in black and white to me. I can't picture the world in color before then no matter what movie I watch!
 

Kalvin00

Lifer
Jan 11, 2003
12,705
4
81
Originally posted by: aircooled
Using personal past photos as a guide, the 60's and higher are in color. all other years are in black and white to me. I can't picture the world in color before then no matter what movie I watch!

I agree, imagining color in the 800's seems weird :confused:
 

Pex

Banned
Aug 21, 2003
1,161
0
0
just look outside. subtract 200 years and now you can imagine it.
 

AFB

Lifer
Jan 10, 2004
10,718
3
0
Originally posted by: aircooled
Using personal past photos as a guide, the 60's and higher are in color. all other years are in black and white to me. I can't picture the world in color before then no matter what movie I watch!

Same here. 65+ (we need a poll)
 

suklee

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
4,575
10
81
I have a set of DVDs called "WWII in color". I always wondered. How do they get color into those films? Wasn't aware they had color cameras back then? :confused:

Is it done digitally?
 

aircooled

Lifer
Oct 10, 2000
15,965
1
0
I think Ted Turner is trying to make us think the world was in color before 1960....
 

AvesPKS

Diamond Member
Apr 21, 2000
4,729
0
0
Does anyone remember the Calvin & Hobbes comic where his dad told him the world wasn't in color before 1950? It was pretty funny, but I can't find a link to it.
 

IshmaelLeaver

Golden Member
Feb 19, 2001
1,519
0
0
C: How do they know the load limit on bridges, Dad?
D: They drive bigger and bigger trucks over the bridge until it breaks. Then
they weigh the last truck and rebuild the bridge.

C: Why does the sun set?
D: It's because hot air rises. The sun's hot in the middle of the day, so it
rises high in the sky. In the evening then, it cools down and sets.

C: Why does it go from east to west?
D: Solar wind.

C: Why does the sky turn red as the sun sets?
D: That's all the oxygen in the atmosphere catching fire.

C: Where does the sun go when it sets?
D: The sun sets in the west. In Arizona actually, near Flagstaff.

C: Oh.
D: That's why the rocks there are so red.
C: Don't the people get burned up?
D: No, the sun goes out as it sets. That's why it is dark at night.

C: Doesn't the sun crush the whole state when it lands?
D: Ha ha, of course not. Hold a quarter up. See, the sun's just about the
same size.

C: I thought I read that the sun was really big.
D: You can't believe everything you read, I'm afraid.

C: So how does the sun rise in the east if it lands in Arizona each night?
D: Well, time for bed.

C: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they
have color film back then?
D: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs ARE in color. It's just the
WORLD was black and white then.

C: Really?
D: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was
pretty grainy color for a while, too.

C: That's really weird.
D: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.

C: But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was black and
white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
D: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.

C: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their
paints have been shades of gray back then?
D: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else in the '30s.

C: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
D: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

C: Dad, will you explain the theory of relativity to me? I don't understand
why time goes slower at greater speed.
D: It's because you keep changing time zones. See, if you fly to California,
you gain three hours on a five-hour flight, right?
So if you go at the speed of light, you gain MORE time, because it doesn't
take as long to get there. Of course, the theory of relativity only works if
you're going west.
 
Dec 1, 2003
145
0
0
Originally posted by: aircooled
Using personal past photos as a guide, the 60's and higher are in color. all other years are in black and white to me. I can't picture the world in color before then no matter what movie I watch!
have you seen pleasantville? that shows the 50s in color. great movie!

 

Excelsior

Lifer
May 30, 2002
19,047
18
81
Originally posted by: Kai920
I have a set of DVDs called "WWII in color". I always wondered. How do they get color into those films? Wasn't aware they had color cameras back then? :confused:

Is it done digitally?

Actually, IIRC, it was color video that had been archived or something like that. They simply found it then put it on the air and dvd.
 
Aug 14, 2001
11,061
0
0
Originally posted by: AvesPKS
Does anyone remember the Calvin & Hobbes comic where his dad told him the world wasn't in color before 1950? It was pretty funny, but I can't find a link to it.

I thought of the same exact thing when I saw the title :D