2007-03-24 03:43:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
When the Wizard of Oz was first released, it was advertised as being filmed in Technicolor. True 3-strip technicolor features had been coming out since about 1935, and though they weren't common in 1939, when "Wizard" was released, they weren't a big surprise.
Most of the people who were really surprised at seeing the film in color were people who grew up in the '50's, seeing it on tv on their black-and-white sets, who saw it in theaters when it was re-released, or when they bought their first color tv, and suddenly found out that Oz was not only in color, but really beautiful color as well---"Wow!--The witch is green!--The ruby slippers are red!-The Yellow Brick Road is really yellow!", etc..
2007-03-24 22:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by Palmerpath 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a surprise because it was color. Several films had been out before this, using technicolor as well as other film and film processing methods.
However, color was not common at the time, so for a film to transition to color, that was probably a surprise. In many places, this may have been the first color film seen, but people knew that color film existed.
The Wizard of Oz was NOT the first film to use color as is often repeated.
See the link below just for an idea of the timeline of Technicolor, alone.
2007-03-24 04:24:56 · answer #2 · answered by goofyguy47 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it was a real suprise because the movie came out in the 1930's, and color did not start coming into TV or the movie theaters between the late 1950's and early 1970's. I was shocked too when I saw that happen.
2007-03-24 04:29:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, in line with my AP GOV ebook, there are honestly parallels to financial despair that Frank L. Baum supposed to assault the financial difficulty of the time. The slippers are silver, relating to the thought to make silver in all cash to expand the volume of forex. They had been transformed to ruby pink within the play so as to add animatronics or anything. The yellow brick avenue supposedly the avenue to wall avenue?
2016-09-05 14:18:54 · answer #4 · answered by puzo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the b&w part was the surprise
2007-03-24 03:51:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i first saw it, it looked weird since i had gotten used to watching the black&white for the first bit
2007-03-24 03:51:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a suprise
2007-03-24 03:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by AARON BLACK 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm sure it was a suprise. and it was awesome!
2007-03-24 03:55:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋