Did you ever reject b&w tv/favor color (once you had an option)?

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I never had one of those magic plastic films, but I had something better: a Winky Dink Kit & Magic Crayons. Still use it—especially with porn.

My grandparents had a small screen B&W set with a big magnifying screen in front, like this:

That would probably work well with porn, too. :wink:

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When I was six years old, I remember telling my parents that I preferred to watch TV at Grandma’s apartment because “the colors were better” than the TV at home. This was 1980 or so. Later I found out why: the TV we had at home was B&W. I had no idea.

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I guess my parents couldn’t afford a Winky-Dink screen, because I distinctly remember drawing directly on the true screen with a purple crayon when I was three or four. My mother gave me hell for it when she caught me.

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Actually, like most 3D movies of the 1950s, Creature from the Black Lagoon was originally released as a polarized 3D movie, which means it was released in black and white. You needed a special projector to project the two different polarized images, as well as a polarization-retaining screen, and you had to provide your audience with polarized glasses.

The problem was that, especially away from the big cities, most theaters didn’t have that kind of equipment, and weren’t going to buy it. So a later release was done in anaglyphic format, where a red image and a blue or blue-green one were superimposed on each frame of the film, you din’t need a special projector or screen, and you gave out special red- and blue- (or gree-) lenses glasses (which were cheaper than the polarized ones, anyway). They also used this for recording the films on VHS or DVD (which is how I’ve got a collection of them). The real advantage of the polarized system was that you could show color movies in that format (You could do color movies in Anaglyphic, but the results were kinda iffy).

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Seems like a lot of expense for a B&W film.

Oh well. I saw it around 1989 in a theater in 3D, and it was a red/blue-green print. Just assumed that was how it was originally released.

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The transition from Black & White to Color explained…