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Is this movie in black and white?

posted 4 years ago by samoanjoes (57071)
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IMDb says it's in technicolor, but there is a trailer on YouTube that's in black and white. Obviously movies get colourized, but I've never seen one that they turned black and white.

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

No, it's in color, everyone who sees it remembers Marilyn Monroe wearing a vivid pink dress. And the falls themselves in living color.

Maybe you got it mixed up with another movie, that's in black and white?

[–] samoanjoes (57071) 4 years ago

No, I got the right movie. I saw this trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xon_mdb2U-s

It's weird because at the end of the trailer it even says it's in colour, but the entire trailer is black and white.

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

Huh. I have no idea why anyone would make a black-and-white trailer for a color film!

Because I've seen the film years and years ago and recently, and it's in color.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/d8/08/3cd8085abe3ced8c06fd314802b864c2.gif

[–] samoanjoes (57071) 4 years ago

I downloaded a version that was colour but when I noticed that trailer, I thought they did a recent colorized version.

[–] Devilman (448) 4 years ago

Well B/W film is cheaper than color film especially back in those days. From my understanding some films from that era actually got two copies for distribution a color and b/w one.

The trailer surviving the times is probably the B/W one.

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

I don't know if it's true that both color and B&W copies of the same film were made, I thought that in those days color or B&W depended on the kind of film that was put in the camera when it was shot. It was cheaper to shoot in B&W than color, but wouldn't it have been even more expensive to shoot the same movie with both color and B&W film?

I have no idea why a B&W trailer for a color film exists, and I swear it's been a color film all along.

[–] Devilman (448) 4 years ago

I wasn't talking about shooting two copies, films are done in color but for distribution they create both color and B&W copies from the original color film.

That practice was common until sometime in the 60s when color film became cheaper and there was no need to have to two distribution copies.

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

I didn't know that was possible, before digital photography.

Certainly when you used the old film cameras, you bought color film or B&W film, I thought it was more or less the same for film cameras.

[–] liscarkat (18605) 4 years ago

The trailer was most likely made in color, but only a black-and-white copy still exists.

[–] kwestmo (4385) 4 years ago

A color trailer exists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvv1lQ65Nw

so BW and color

[–] samoanjoes (57071) 4 years ago

I saw that one. I was just wondering why IMDb said it was colour but the trailer was black and white even though the trailer even said it was colour.

[–] kwestmo (4385) 4 years ago

Devilman may have posted the answer above "I wasn't talking about shooting two copies, films are done in color but for distribution they create both color and B&W copies from the original color film.

That practice was common until sometime in the 60s when color film became cheaper and there was no need to have to two distribution copies."

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

I have sometimes confused Niagara with River Of No Return. Not sure I've even seen the former, but I liked "No Return" just because it was kind of an action film of a sort Monroe rarely appeared in. A fun departure from her usual fare.