Gaffer Tape said:

TheBoost said:

Dying old b/w films was an awesome process that people today don't respect (the opening of Wizard of Oz is supposed to be sepia toned, but on some versions they've taken it to straight b/w). Chaney's Phantom of the Opera had some green and red scenes, and the flag in "Battleship Potempkin" was sometimes painstakingly handcolored red, frame by frame... imagine how awesome that must have seemed back then.

Thanks for confirming that for me. That's what I thought. I wouldn't say that people today don't respect film dyeing. I think it's just something they either don't understand or have no knowledge of. However, it's not like the art is lost forever. Its spiritual successors live on in the forms of gels, lens filters, and post production color correction.

I mean 'don't respect' because many of these old films have been preserved in pure b/w (also without the original scores, which is a shame as well). So yes, I guess I mean 'no knowledge of.'

These old silent films weren't these sped up, scratchy poorly contrasted b/w movies with silly piano music, they were epic, moving pictures that had all the majesty and were as impressive by their own standards as the biggest blockbuster today.