In the thirties and forties color was VERY expensive and complex to shoot, and B&W was used often for cost reasons, not for artiustic concerns. This was true to a lesser extent in the fifties and sixties. Shooting color in its early years requirted incredibly bright, hot, and expensive lighting, and the only process available was Technicolor, a process that had, at the time, numerous faults and was expensive to process and print, as well as problematical contarctual requirements between Technicolor and the studios.
Shel > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:33:49 -0500, Peter J. Alling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some later films, notably of the film noire genre of starting in the > > late 30's into the mid 50's, eschewed color for artistic reasons.
