Can someone help me think of a film where black and white was used as a special effect in a color film. How was it used?
2007-01-07 08:56:58 · 4 answers · asked by alw0322 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Pleasantville. Where it symbolized the past (the most common usage)
The first movie to use B&W deliberately in a colour film was The Wizard of Oz. In that film the B&W (Kansas) sections were "reality" and the colour sections (Oz) were "fantasy".
2007-01-07 09:03:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite use of black-and-white (monochrome) in a color film was in the 1945 British fantasy, "A Matter of Life and Death" (known in the US as "Stairway to Heaven")
All the scenes set in real-life-and-time were in Technicolor (a costly process, usually reserved for spectacle and fantasy); scenes set in Heaven in this film were filmed in a stylised monochrome, which gave Heaven a very dreamlike, yet-matter-of-fact, look. Very nifty, and a very special movie, too!
2007-01-07 09:08:04 · answer #2 · answered by Palmerpath 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was recently used in "Black Dahlia" as a backflash recollection of a detective who became embroiled in the murder case when a young detective.
2007-01-07 09:01:15 · answer #3 · answered by sugarbabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see how effectively it was used here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BngEhhdg4lw
2007-01-07 09:03:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋