The excellent “The Three Musketeers” by George Sidney (1948) on TCM reminded me of numerous disputes of colorizing old movies.

And I thought I got the idea, at least with the old movies depicting even older epochs – like in the case with the Musketeers.

See, the idea is that a color movie of 40′s is as much unusual as a B&W movie of a more recent period, like “Schindler’s List” (1993)

What is common in these two situations – the events portrayed are greatly divided from the times they are played by actors. So the purpose of the artificial addition (“colorization”) or removing (b&w shooting) of the color might very likely be an attempt of amplifying a dramatic impact on a viewer with the improbable connection of the Unconnectable (subsets of Time in this case)

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