Digital BW, The Print

At 6:27 am +0000 8/26/04, Tyler Boley wrote:

>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, James Irelan 
><james@r...> wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 09:50 PM, Clayton Jones wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Roger,
>>>
>>>>This evening I was watching an old silent movie, now on DVD, and 
>>>>was enormously struck by the magnificent B&W images that were 
>>>>contained in it.
>>>
>>>I was struck by the great b&w work of a contempory, Robby Mueller, 
>>>watching his work on Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law. Beautiful.
>
>Absolutely, and check out Coen brothers' "Man Who Wasn't There". 
>Don't know who shot it but really great B&W. People still can do it 
>and want to do it. Getting it on the screen is something else.


Check out Woody Allen's Manhattan. I don't know who the 
cinematographer was, but it's a beautiful movie.


At 10:03 am -0500 8/26/04, Kip Babington wrote:

>One thing I remember reading about the making of B&W movies was the 
>sometimes outlandish colors that were used in costumes. Oranges, 
>purples, greens and the like that you would never put together in a 
>real wardrobe, but based on the spectral response of the film being 
>used they gave just the right tonalities for a good looking B&W 
>image. I think the same held true for television while it was B&W.


The Les Paul TV model guitar was a disgustingly bilious shade of 
green. It looked _great_ on a black and white TV.


-=-Dennis


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