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This week's movie in the middle of the street was "The Thin Man" (1934). Very funny.
The goofy thing about Calvin's father's explanation of how the world turned from black and white to color, is that there were both black and white pictures and color pictures when I was a kid. There are some black & white now, but not nearly as common.
Ohhh! I know what he'd say.
He'd say that of course they had had color film all along, and just before the world turned to color, they invented black & white film which was a huge hit at first. Because people weren't used to all this blinding color yet, and felt safer with familiar, cozy, calm, black & white pictures.
The adults pretended to us that color film was new, but really it was that color was new. They were afraid to frighten us and never really did adapt to color. The generation of people in between my parents and I in age were the first to grow up in a color world. They not only embraced it, they went wild and pushed it to its limits when they broke away - Day Glo swirls, Peter Max, wild outfits. In a backlash the next decade went brown, green, and orange - trying to be more natural, no bright primaries allowed.
Next week's movie is a Jackie Chan one (Supercop ). They end Sept 1 with the original Planet of the Apes.
The goofy thing about Calvin's father's explanation of how the world turned from black and white to color, is that there were both black and white pictures and color pictures when I was a kid. There are some black & white now, but not nearly as common.
Ohhh! I know what he'd say.
He'd say that of course they had had color film all along, and just before the world turned to color, they invented black & white film which was a huge hit at first. Because people weren't used to all this blinding color yet, and felt safer with familiar, cozy, calm, black & white pictures.
The adults pretended to us that color film was new, but really it was that color was new. They were afraid to frighten us and never really did adapt to color. The generation of people in between my parents and I in age were the first to grow up in a color world. They not only embraced it, they went wild and pushed it to its limits when they broke away - Day Glo swirls, Peter Max, wild outfits. In a backlash the next decade went brown, green, and orange - trying to be more natural, no bright primaries allowed.
Next week's movie is a Jackie Chan one (Supercop ). They end Sept 1 with the original Planet of the Apes.
