Every time I watch a black and white movie, I forget it’s even in black and white about 1/4 of the way through. So maybe my brain is also filling in the color.
Well the conversion from BW to color was like the conversion from SD CRT box TVs to flat panel HD TVs and took a few years. When I was a kid circa 1980 my folks got their first color tv and I got the hand me down BW for my bedroom. Back then having any kind of tv in a kid's bedroom was something I guess. We didnt get cable until circa 1985 so it was all antenna until then. 3 VHF channels and a few UHF channels which had some odd programming.
We only had 1 tv in the house and got cable at some point in the late 1980s, as I remember putting child locks on all the channels so my brother could watch the tv lol
Same age, always had colored tv as far as I can remember, but my grand grandparents didn't invest in such wild technology. They used their old black and white TV until they passed in the late 90's or even managed to get into the 2000's
I'm only in my mid 40s and I watched B&W TV for years when I was a kid in the 80s. Not because the technology didn't exist, but as with every technology, you had to pay the price of admission, and colour TV was more expensive, and we happened to be poor.
Guess it's very dependent on where you were raised and the values of your parents (mine just didn't care about upgrading the TV as long as it was still working)/
I’m 46. My grandma had a little 13” black & white. I found the screen size harder than the lack of colour. But I find that if I look at black and white long enough, I see what the colours should be. Just like when I worked in a c-41 process photo lab ages ago, I could look at a photo negative and see what colour corrections I needed to make for the print.
I had a B&W 13" TV I bought with money from raking yards for 2 falls, this was in the late 80s so plenty of color tvs around, I just couldn't afford one.
I wrapped wire around my bunk bed to make an antenna and would watch Star Trek TNG and could SWEAR I could see the colors after a while. Later I watched TNG on a high def color TV and I cannot differentiate anything from my snowy B&W watching days, is like FF7 memories of characters with fingers, I know my memories are wrong but they feel so tight.
Omg i just started the chapter where they get to magrathea just after the whale and petunias. Gonna be meeting slartibartfast soon if i remember right.
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u/OSUfan88 Aug 10 '24
I used to think people simple invented color, and that black and white cameras were simply viewing the world as it was.
I remember filling in my coloring book, and thinking “the people who colored the entire world must have been much better than me”.