It's a popular technique in filmmaking to cast past or historical events in black and white, and current events in color. I think a lot of that comes from the big moment when the first color films and the first color televisions became widely available. My very first memories of television were from an old 13 or 15 incher (it was big for that time)... it was black and white, had all the old knobs instead of the buttons and touchpanels of today (remember VHF and UHF?), and took about 2 minutes for the tube to warm up and finally present a picture (Memories of hearing Big Bird from Sesame Street before actually seeing him later). A lot different from the 40 inch widescreen projector TV my family has now.
It's only a matter of time, and probably fairly soon that holograms and other types of tridimensional displays will come to maturity and be available to the public. I wonder... will the same thing happen again? Will past and historical events be cast in 2D, with 3D saved for current events? Would it be still in black and white if it's in the past anyway?
Random thought of today... to be answered probably by the children of tomorrow.
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