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    Film Noir...in Color?

    You mean like "Metropolis?"
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    Shows you how much attention I pay to movies. Or, alternatively, there's one thing on the screen and I'm seeing something else. VHS tapes?
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    The first Batman movie came out in the 1940s, live action. Some of the animated Batman films, in color, are still full of long dark shadows and very moody and dramatic scenes. There was also a live action production of The Phantom that was similar but it doesn't seem to have made much of an...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I have observed those things in places where I've worked over the last 50 years. But then, I've always worked in small companies, less than 200 employees and usually smaller. That is, in the location I've worked in. Circumstances and situations have varied a great deal, of course. Those in...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    There is a strongly held and cherished belief in some circles that in some vague time in the past, sometime around 1964, when very high quality products were available at rock bottom price (just check the prices in old catalogs) and everyone shopped at Brooks Brothers and wore Palm Beach suits...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    That's a twist.
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    I understand what you're saying (I think) but I think the same things have been done in color films. They weren't film noir films, to be sure, but with the setting they created a certain mood, intentionally, of course, but didn't do it with black and white shades of darkness. Sometimes it can...
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    Old gas stations

    That thing wouldn't look out of place in a science fiction movie. Little paint, maybe new tires, and it'd be good a new.
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    I think a movie should be judged on its own merits without comparison to either the book or to other versions. Naturally, that isn't so easy to do and it takes effort. Even so, it won't make it any better than it is. I still think of a Film Noir movie as one in which all the characters aren't...
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    I understand there are complaints about old films being colorized. You might be surprised to learn that some filming is still done on actual film, even though it may be digitalized later. Couldn't tell you why.
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    Wow, that's a long list. I notice that one is entitled "The Color Wheel." I can't claim that B&W is better or worse than color. They are just different, no matter what kind of movie it was. I think "The Longest Day" was in B&W (1962). And speaking of black and white, I was watching a Swiss TV...
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    The old b-movie westerns and other action movies like Jungle Jim and Tarzan were all in glorious black and white but I wouldn't call any of them film noir. It could be said they had a certain atmosphere without exactly being atmospheric. The settings were always predictable, mostly all being...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    Like a few other houses in the neighborhood, we had metal chairs like that. People would still sit on their front porches back then because no one had air conditioning. Only a few houses had a back porch like ours, which had four outside doors opening onto the back porch. The doorbell was also...
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    I recall a Marx Brothers film where Groucho make a comment about Technicolor being so expensive. To me, Film Noir means a plot in which the good and the bad are not so cut and dried, so to speak. But some black and white films do not have a dark feel at all, and that's intentional, even though...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    If it never went out of production, is it still a reproduction?
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    Old gas stations

    Didn't California used to be part of Mexico, not to mention a few other states?
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    Sprezzatura vs trying too hard.

    Yes, but! Although the material in the linked reference, which was very interesting, by the way, did mention people wearing clothes for a long time, which still happens, I think that happened more than he suggests. Of course, it's usually older people who keep wearing their old-fashioned (last...
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    Old gas stations

    Is that Moon Mullin's taxi?
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    Sprezzatura vs trying too hard.

    I wonder where guys in the 1920s got their inspiration on how to dress?
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    Old gas stations

    The only people who run stop signs and red lights are uninsured clowns. That is, except where I live, where practically everyone runs red lights.

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