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Old Hollywood in Color: Because It was Never black and White
Robert M. Fells
ASIN: B006PIYTJO
Publisher: Arliss Publishing House
Pages: 178

This volume is more or less a companion to The Arliss Archives,The Arliss Archives: or the Further Adventures of The Man Who Played God (Volume 1) which is a celebration of actor, author, playwright and film maker George Arliss (1868-1946). As the Arliss project evolved, I found that adding digital color to original black & white photographs sometimes produced startlingly good results. More importantly, the "cinemagraphic painting process" as I call it, brought a contemporary quality to these visions of long ago. Some black and white photos were obviously designed to exploit the beauty of light and shadows and those works I have preserved in their original greytones as the photographer intended.Purists may contest this point, but the fact is that most studio photographs from old Hollywood used black and white film in a utilitarian manner because color film was either too expensive or ...
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