Yes there are super black and white films. How many realize that the beginning and end of Wizard of Oz is in BW ? A storm on the prairies can get black and white but I believe the use of BW there went beyond that as commentary. Since there "is no color in ET" I suppose a comment might be that ET is really BW. ---ric ----- Original Message ----- From: Ward & Probst <wardprobst@cst.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:49 AM Subject: RE: Montal and Aristoxenes (wasHT Experience) > <<Kind of like black and white was developed before color and now every one > wants color. Or Stereo from Hi Fi. Who wants to go back to Hi Fi? No one. > Who wants to go back to black and white? OK some do and I can see > . ---ric>> > Just a different thought on this- I was a cinema > buff for a few years and one thing I learned about was the contrast between > black & white(BW) and color movies. (I will lump all the various color > techniques together for simplicity). Filmmakers generally bemoaned the loss > of the dramatic lighting and shading effects available in BW when the first > color pictures were made. Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind were both shot > in 1939 and both great movies but the effects Welles achieved in Kane would > have been impossible in color. The Last Picture Show was shot in BW about > 1970 to reinforce director Bogdonavitch's vision of the Rolling Plains area > of North Texas in the drought of the 1950's. The point is that both > techniques are capable of producing equally great results- the end product > being served by the method of the artist. > So it is with tempering in my view. To do only equal temperament or only > unequal temperament is limiting to you as a technician. What really matters > in the end is that music is made that touches the spirit and inspires the > soul. > > Best, > Dale > Dale Probst, RPT > Member, TEAM20001 > PTG Annual Convention > Reno, NV --July 11-15, 2000 > email: wardprobst@cst.net > (940)691-3682 voice > (940) 691-6843 fax > TEAM2001 website: http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm > > >
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