Black And White In Entertainment Can Be Useful

 

Do you ever question why back then films were made and produced in black and white?

It's not a real thing, it's an art thing. 

The world has obviously been full of color since the beginning. 

But for films and pictures, it was expensive to make them in color, so black and white was always considered the best option at the time.

The films back in the 30s were appealing and really neat. It had personality.

Look at this picture. This fits perfectly. It's definitely sometime in the 20s, where everything on screen wasn't in color, but still, this is really solid for the era. 

I could assume someone back then was so sick of seeing photos with these colors, but nowadays we think they're rich and clean. 

We grew up with this stuff, so why recolor them?

Things took a dark turn in the late 60s till about the early 90s, where television rised and shows that aired at time were immediately colorized. 

Classic Movies and especially Classic Shorts would be re-colorized to be more vibrant and man it didn't age well.

Ew.

We're these at all safe for television? I would assume yes, but I would also say no for a practical reason. I'm worried when people think this is what the short film looked like. 

I would say it ruins it. They relatively copied it to make it more unpleasant.

Fleischer is probably the only animation studio that should never have any color to the cartoons whatsoever. 

Nowadays people know about this. Look at this fantastic transparent image. 

The good news is, these types of re-issues died out in the late 90s, and DVDs would usually remastered the old black and white shorts instead of the lousy colorized ones.

Now like I'm saying, not everything in black and white can be perfect, in fact, I would boldly assume everyone wanted to experience and stick to watching colorized stuff when the Silly Symphonies aired.

So did TV Shows, but that didn't get the budget it deserved. 

Stuff like I Love Lucy, and mostly Andy Griffith were always kinda "eh" to me. 

I think the reasons why I never liked these shows was for it's lack of personality and exhausting style of humor. 

In all honesty, I kinda miss when films were made with extremely limited colors. I would love to see more black and white movies sometime instead of the dull bland stuff we get nowadays like the sequels no-one asked for and the obsessive drama movies where the people talk about nonsense for 2 hours. 

Give us creativity! I know money is important but so does passion!