Black and White Movies

Young Frankenstein, Jacques Tati Mr Hulot's holiday and Mon Uncle [really all of his movies cannot remember if Mon Uncle is colour or B and W have to dig out the DVD] . All the Laurel and Hardy shorts and features and the Three Stooges the same.
 
One BW favorite is "The Train" with Bert Lancaster just putting yourself in their shoes..

I've been watching several Humphery Bogart movies lately on Youtube, and when they convert them to colour, it to me loses some appeal

The list of BW fav's could be miles long... they certainly knew how to make original movies back then..

Another good BW is Larceny Inc with Edward G Robinson.
 
A horrific black and white film that because it was in black and white brought home the true reality of depraved human behaviour against true love and compassion for fellow human beings......Schindler's List.
I urge EVERYONE to watch it....it should give us all a lesson from history.
You will not be the same after you have watched it compared to before you watched it.
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Here on the other side of the Pond, Perry Mason was filmed in black and white which lent a certain air to the show. As a test, they did exactly one episode in color which only served to demonstrate the fact that black and white was better for that genre.
 
Adanor said:
Here on the other side of the Pond, Perry Mason was filmed in black and white which lent a certain air to the show. As a test, they did exactly one episode in color which only served to demonstrate the fact that black and white was better for that genre.
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That brings to mind colorization. I'm generally a purist in wanting to see shows unaltered, especially aspect ratios/cropping (give me black bars over any loss of pic or distortion!) but I'm a mixed bag on colorization, I think it works for shows that started in B&W for cost but switched to color a season or so in (I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island) but wouldn't with shows where like Perry Mason the B&W was actually utilized to best effect (Addams Family). I'm a huge Laurel & Hardy fan and have been enjoying many of their shorts colorized which is weird because it just doesn't seem right when I see The 3 Stooges colorized, lol. As for movies, while you'd never want something like the original Psycho colorized, Richard Elfman (Danny's brother) colorized The Forbidden Zone about 10 years ago. That had always been the plan, shoot in B&W and colorize in the style of an old Fleischer cartoon but they ran short budget in 1980.
 
I can't imagine The Lost Weekend in color. It wouldn't have been nearly as terrifying, especially the scene in which the hallucination of a bat squeezing out of a crack in the plaster wall appears.
 
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