04-29-2022, 12:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-29-2022, 12:50 AM by Tim Randal Walker.)
I noticed that on YouTube you can find videos of rock stars performing (what was then) live...half a century ago! In living color!
I think that when color television appeared back in the mid '60s a new possibility appeared-the past as a ghost. You can look back at events decades in the past, and they appear current because at the time they were filmed live, in color.
You don't get the same effect from, say, black and white newsreels from World War II, interesting though they may be. Being black and white reminds you that you are not viewing something live. This also the case with black and white television.
I know that color movies appeared as early as The Wizard of Oz, but of course those are fiction, rather than a true recording of the past.
I think that when color television appeared back in the mid '60s a new possibility appeared-the past as a ghost. You can look back at events decades in the past, and they appear current because at the time they were filmed live, in color.
You don't get the same effect from, say, black and white newsreels from World War II, interesting though they may be. Being black and white reminds you that you are not viewing something live. This also the case with black and white television.
I know that color movies appeared as early as The Wizard of Oz, but of course those are fiction, rather than a true recording of the past.