Watch it the old way!

[The real Henry]

Every time I watch a period movie that I already saw I decide to watch it in black and white just to get that 1930s-40s movie feeling. Today there's one of my most favoured films on TV and I just realized that I never turned off the colour while watching any of the Indiana Jones. I think they will look great in black and white, because they did the lightning in a very golden era way.


Do also you switch off the colours sometimes?


Regards,
Henrik

 

[LadyDeWinter]

I have never done it. I didn't know that this is possible. I have the DVD The Women at home. In this film there is a short part in colour the rest of the film is black and white. When I watch the film I always think I want to see this film all in colour. I want to see which colours they wore in that time.

By the way, there is an Indiana Jones tonight on tv in Germany.

 

[The real Henry]

I just turn off the colour of the TV itself.



BTW-(Ich glaube da sprechen wir von der gleichen Sendung! )



Regards,
Henrik

 

[LadyDeWinter]

Oh yes. I should read the posts properly.

(Sch??nen Abend noch!)

 

[Phil]

Actually, USA network is running Monk in both B&W and in color December 22nd. It looks like it could be really good. I think they want to bring a noir feeling to Monk. I've watched a few movies in B&W. Recently I picked up Clerks 2 and I watched it in B&W like in Clerks. Indiana Jones is excelent in B&W.

 

[Roger]

Once in a while I do it to get a kick out of it. But, it really doesn't have that '30s era glow to it. Ergo, I never watch a colorized film, it just doesn't feel right.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Jungle Red

I was ridiculed elsewhere in this forum for having a black and white television but I prefer it. When watching a BW video on a color TV and the color is not toned down, the black and white video doesn't look good. There is too much green or something as I recall. Although I did watch The Women on a color TV last summer and adjusted the color when the fashion show was over.

 

[jake_fink]

And I thought watching something the old way was to actually leave your house and go to a movie theatre. Silly me.

 

[Sefton]

Another way is to get yourself a working vintage black and white TV. I've a 1955 model and you will not mistake it for the experience of watching on a new set that's for sure! After you spend about 20 minutes adjusting the horizontal and vertical hold, fine tuning and fiddling with the rabbit ears you'll know about watching it the old way all right! (It's fun...just don't get rid of your new set. Sometimes you just want the modern world too)

 

[moustache]

GREAT

Great idea!! But then again when i watch tv it isn't for long.
Movies on the other hand...

JD

 

[undertaker]

Is there a new way? We still run out side and turn the antena at my house...Well my wife turns itlol lol lol . We did have to yell out the window or beat on the wall when it was right, but we have gotten modern, now we have walkie talkieslol lol lol . She really enjoys this chore when its raining.lol lol lol

Regards,
J.S.

 

[Lady Day]

Its an interesting idea.
I dont have a TV, so I cant put that into practice, but I would think if the film was not lit or planned with B&W shooting in mind, that the values could be a bit too close to follow.

LD

 

[Doctor Strange]

Watching in b/w is a start, but when I *really* wanna watch the old way, I pull out my 16mm projector and dip into my cartoon collection!

When you watch a TV image of any type, it's continually refreshed. When you watch a projected film image, you are looking at a dark screen fully half the time, as the projector's shutter closes as the frames are advanced. The phenomenon of persistance of vision makes you unaware of this at a conscious level - but there is still a barely perceptable difference regarding sitting in the dark... There's something about it that's deep in our psyches, going back to listening to the tribal shaman tell stories in front of a fire surrounded by scary, deep darkness.

This crucial difference is one of the more subtle reasons that TV and home viewing haven't killed movie theaters - there's something special about sitting in the dark with a bunch of strangers that you cannot recapture in your living room...

 

[The real Henry]

This short clip was just posted on COW. I think it's great!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4G_pFPl4U



Regards,
Henrik