Give me a link to information showing when The Wizard of Oz had color added to it, if it was always color, etc. Thanks.

Maybe this will help: http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/faq12.html#17

Here you go:

http://www.technicolor.com/aboutus/press-wizardoz.html

Out of curiosity, what was the bet?

I imagine that some cat's life may hang in the balance over this

Thanks for both links. I was sure that the movie was always in color, which made things like the ruby slippers, yellow brick road, horses that change color, etc. more vibrant than a B&W film would. My mother-in-law ways that the movie was originally B&W and color wasn't added until much later (she thought sometime in the 60s).

Disclaimer: No cats were harmed during the course of this bet

Well, that's easy. Colorization as we know it today wasn't invented until the 1980's, and that technique makes it impossible to create the vibrant colors in the film. Before computerized colorization, there was tinting, but again that could never produce those kinds of colors.

This reminds me of my first class on the first day of film school when, in a discussion about b&w vs. color, a girl proclaimed that colorization isn't all bad because films like Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz bennefited so much from the addition of color. Way to start things off on the right foot at film school.

I KNEW IT!!!

Maybe she just watched it on a b&w tv the first time

Question... if I make the obvious reference to "color" or "black and white" concerning Gone with the Wind... will I get suspended faster than you can say "Original Desmond"?

Only if you call Ted Turner a jew.

Lechaym, ya'll...

I was wondering the other day, has colorization pretty much ended?

It hadn't reared its ugly head for more than a decade when out of the clear blue Disney released a colorized version of the Absent Minded Prof. back in April.

Pants,

That isn't exactly true. The entire first season of I DREAM OF JEANNIE (30 eps) and the first and second seasons of BEWITCHED (72 eps) were colorized in 2000 and aired in the US on The Hallmark Channel and extensively overseas.

TV LAND just picked both of these series up again, and, it appears they have chosen to run the original black and white versions.

This only affects the first JEANNIE season and the first and second BEWITCHED seasons, as they both switched to being shot in color in the fall of 1966 for the remainder of their runs.

It is true, though, that for the most part colorization isn't done too often anymore.

Bad career move.

Wrong career choice too.