Comments on: Didja ever notice – “movies that mix black-and-white with color” in film?

By: MDR

MDR — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:25:31 +0000

The Sam Fuller B&W thriller Shock Corridor (1963) contains at least three color sequences.

By: CineMaven

CineMaven — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:19:13 +0000

I would say “The Women” should be included among your list of black and white color films. The fashion sequence is in color. It kind of was a shock to go back to black and white after that.

But Paulette Goddard’s in the second half…and that brought me back to my senses.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:31:05 +0000

There was a film in the late 70′s, early 80′s, that was about a boy and a girl that discovered long ago that a girl had fallen in a well on the property and died. One night, when the family of the two children are having a party, the ghost of the dead girl dances with the boy and instead of being black and white, she takes on color like a living person. Does anyone know what the name of this film was that i remember?

By: MDR

MDR — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:28:21 +0000

Jour de fete (1949), which aired last night on TCM, is a B&W film with color tinting of various features in the fair scenes: the flag, the top of the carousel, balloons, etc..

By: Ian W. Hill

Ian W. Hill — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:01:57 +0000

The film Rojen's thinking of is Coppola's Rumble Fish, which was mentioned above.Maybe the flash frame of red with the gunshot into tyhe camera at the end of Spellbound counts?

By: MDR

MDR — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:27:12 +0000

I'm sorry I don't remember the specific sequence you've noted Rojen, but Wings of Desire (1987) definitely qualifies as a movie that mixes black-and-white with color.

By: rojen

rojen — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:43:30 +0000

I might be imagining this, but I remember this as real (lol) When I saw "Wings of Desire", with its use of color and B/W, I loved a B/W scene where one of the characters passes by a pet shop window but the goldfish in the aquarium had color.In watching it later on TV (maybe the scene was cut?) and on VHS, the scene wasn't there or was all B/W, don't remember which. But it makes me wonder if I imagined it all or my mind's eye added the goldfish color in "post-production". Help me, lol………

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:50:00 +0000

Death Kiss starring Lugosi, Manners, and Van Sloane has color gun shots in the climax.

By: Pax Romano

Pax Romano — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:40:09 +0000

While it is a more current movie, Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It", which is filmed in black and white; has one scene where the main characters are at a park watching a dance number. I recall seeing this movie in a theater, and when that scene came on, it knocked me out of my seat.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:10:32 +0000

William Castle used a bit of color in The Tingler during the LSD scene. The bathtub is full of red blood.