It's extremely important to remember that black and white can be just as subtle as color because you can do so many things to it. Unfortunately, because it was rather unstable, it could also set the projector, the booth, and the theater on fire, so that its projection is now illegal in all but a handful of theaters in the country specially equipped to contain a blaze. Silver nitrate stock, on which much silent film was shot, produced a shimmering, other-worldly quality, seeming to set the screen on fire. Hollywood Technicolor tended to be used to make everything pretty, so that the most serious dramas often tended to be black and white: Citizen Kane (1941), The Little Foxes (1941), the entire genre of film noir, and so on. In the 1930s and 1940s cost was not the only factor determining which film stock a film project would employ. Black and White and Technicolor in Hollywood's Golden Era But how do filmmakers choose what kinds of colors to use? And how are we supposed to respond to those colors as intelligent filmgoers? In this section we will talk a little about the aesthetics of color from both sides of the spectrum. So now you know about how we got to the color you see in today's films. Famous Instances of Black and White and Color.Draining Away and Saturating with Color.The Politics of Color: The Contemporary Scene.The Aesthetics of Black and White and Color.Blitz-Klieg: A Brief History of Black-and-White Film.Film: Aesthetics of Black and White and Color Film.
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