Re: Calvin & Hobbes

[Mark Cassino]

A copy of the original Sunday strip of this was on the wall of the darkroom 
in the community college when I took some classes there last year - it's a 
hoot!

- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax List" <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:11 AM
Subject: OT: Calvin & Hobbes


I finally found the Calvin & Hobbes strip I'd been looking for.
It's in  Scientific Progress goes "Boink"  (on page 23, for
those Robert Rankin fans among us ...)
Calvin:  Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white?
        Didn't they have colour film back then?
Dad:     Sure they did.  In fact those old photographs *are* in
        colour.  It's just the *world* was black and white then.
Calvin:  Really?
Dad:     Yep.  The world didn't turn color until sometime in the
        1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin:  That's really weird.
Dad:     Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin:  But then why are old *paintings* in color?  If the world was
        black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
Dad:     Not necessarily.  A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin:  But how could they have painted in color anyway?  Wouldn't
        their paints have been shades of grey back then?
Dad:     Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did
        in the '30s.
Calvin:  So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad:     Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?