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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 334006" data-attributes="member: 57984">In the &#039;50s and early-&#039;60s, movies were often shot in color due to genre, not cost. There were high-budget B&amp;W films (like THE MISFITS) and fairly low-budget comedies filmed in color. (On TV, it was mostly a budget thing).It was also believed that B&amp;W was more complimentary to women&#039;s faces, making it easier to obscure imperfections in close-up. So Crawford would have been acutely aware of that. Bette said CHARLOTTE couldn&#039;t be shot in color, because otherwise &quot;it would look like GWTW.&quot;There are just certain moods you can achieve in B&amp;W that simply can&#039;t with even the most carefully shot color film... Perhaps it&#039;s the uniformity that B&amp;W permits that color, by definition, can&#039;t (where all the objects on screen feel distinctly separate from one another which prevents a visual cohesion needed for the kind of focused atmosphere required for a film noir).&nbsp;I&#039;d hate to see the B&amp;W noir films of the &#039;40s in color (in all its silvery lush tones), or the creepy cold war dramas from the early-&#039;60s in anything other than stark B&amp;W.<img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.8b6efbb7cc1b81d3acc8009c636c893d?rik=6h25VIBIDnZ0uw&amp;riu=http%3a%2f%2fstatic.messynessychic.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2014%2f07%2ftara14.jpg&amp;ehk=AaNZe0Z6Po3mDULZCKYOkgWmOjPXrs%2bXv5eyLXZ3UQk%3d&amp;risl=&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 412px" /> [ATTACH=full]39689[/ATTACH]But in the &#039;50s, it&#039;s hard to tell if it matters...<img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.0d767328252a97c2942896e05e2c0db9?rik=tj52Rs5D%2fJma7w&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 620px" />John Huston once said the only film he ever regretted shooting in B&amp;W was NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964) which is understandable if you ever saw the gorgeous color home movie/documentary footage they shot when they were down there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 334006, member: 57984"] In the '50s and early-'60s, movies were often shot in color due to genre, not cost. There were high-budget B&W films (like THE MISFITS) and fairly low-budget comedies filmed in color. (On TV, it was mostly a budget thing). It was also believed that B&W was more complimentary to women's faces, making it easier to obscure imperfections in close-up. So Crawford would have been acutely aware of [I][B]that[/B][/I]. Bette said CHARLOTTE couldn't be shot in color, because otherwise "it would look like GWTW." There are just certain moods you can achieve in B&W that [I][B]simply can't[/B][/I] with even the most carefully shot color film... Perhaps it's the uniformity that B&W permits that color, by definition, can't (where all the objects on screen feel distinctly separate from one another which prevents a visual cohesion needed for the kind of focused atmosphere required for a film noir). I'd hate to see the B&W noir films of the '40s in color (in all its silvery lush tones), or the creepy cold war dramas from the early-'60s in anything other than stark B&W. [IMG width="412px"]https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.8b6efbb7cc1b81d3acc8009c636c893d?rik=6h25VIBIDnZ0uw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fstatic.messynessychic.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2014%2f07%2ftara14.jpg&ehk=AaNZe0Z6Po3mDULZCKYOkgWmOjPXrs%2bXv5eyLXZ3UQk%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0[/IMG] [ATTACH type="full" width="593px"]39689[/ATTACH] But in the '50s, it's hard to tell if it matters... [IMG width="620px"]https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.0d767328252a97c2942896e05e2c0db9?rik=tj52Rs5D%2fJma7w&pid=ImgRaw&r=0[/IMG] John Huston once said the only film he ever regretted shooting in B&W was NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964) which is understandable if you ever saw the gorgeous color home movie/documentary footage they shot when they were down there. [/QUOTE]

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