Your First Colour Movie

[fender62]

i remember as a kid thinking there was another world where people lived in b/w, seeing the wizard of oz going from b/w into colour was wow, but only years later when we could afford a colour tv...you remember dont you, telly rentals lol, what was your revelation.

[jno]

I used to figure British films were in black and white, American ones were in colour. That was only a rule of thumb.

[fender62]

i remember seeing errol flynn in robin hood in colour wow spectacular

[jourdain2]

On holiday once, in Edinburgh, Dad took us to see North by Northwest. First colour movie he (or we) had seen. He was old enough to remember the first sound on film. Yes! he saw the Al Johnson movie. He told us how totally amazing it felt and the excitement in the cinema. He was almost (not quite) as smitten with the colour.

I remember wondering why we needed colour TV - we used b/w until the 1980s and we didn't have any problem watching snooker. Must have been 1985/6 before we got colour t.v..

[jno]

most of the British films I saw in the 50s and 50s were the cheap and cheerful ones you see on Talking Pictures TV now, almost always in mono. A few prestige productions were in colour, the sort of ones that might turn up for a Royal Command Performance, but it wasn't common.

[fender62]

Boulting brothers films were cheap and cheerful

[Togo]

Apache. My Dad too me to "The Pictures" but was really only using me as an excuse to go and see it himself. I would have been 7 or 8 years old. Imagine that these days my old man would be arrested. I loved it.

[davebro]

Dunno about colour - the first film we saw in "Cinemascope" was The Robe. We could only get seats at one side on the front row & the picture was terribly distorted. That & how boring the film is had us in fits of laughter - I'm sure that others in the audience weren't as amused.

[fender62]

davebro, yea seen a few religious inspired films sadly, didnt convert me though, some dude on a cross ermm nails etc, reality was they wouldnt us nails, to expensive when rope was cheaper, but for religious lets not get facts in the way..

[rockyracoon]

My family were a bit poor growing up so we had a black and white TV. I clearly remember 20000 Leagues Under the Sea coming on the telly and we were invited to a neighbour’s to watch it in colour. I had seen colour films in the cinema though, can’t remember the first one.

[fender62]

rockyracoon, yea remember the tv's when they cam in were like furniture all wood surrounds, big ole things, remember stereograms ie grundigs.

[sandyRoe]

Davebro,
It might have been John Wayne as the centurion in the Robe.
His American drawl, Truly this was the son of God, seemed incongruous.

[fender62]

wayne in the green berets..what a disaster, i remember back then dring the nam war, without going into detail serving friends at the time were ag, but let's not get truth into it.

[jno]

sandyRoe, you'll be aware that the director asked Wayne to put a bit more awe into the line, so Wayne said "Awww, truly this was the son of God."

Though actually what he says is "Truly this man was the son of God."

[fender62]

that was off topic, vietnam war was a tragedy...sorry

[davebro]

Wayne was in "The Greatest Story Ever Told". Richard Burton was in "The Robe".

[1ozzy]

I guess you're not talking about blue movies

[emmie]

seems not 1ozzy

[bhg481]

I seem to remember "Genevieve" was the first colour film I saw; released in 1953 I would have been about 8.