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They're of the same year even

>>371694
Color was expensive, for one thing. There were color processes used going back to the silent days, but it wasn't usually considered to be worth the price.

>>371695 wow, thats crazy, they even go until 1960s dont they
>>371697 nver heard this, really?

>>371698
The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks was an early Technicolor movie, and that came out in 1926. Three-strip Technicolor is the more natural-looking process everyone associates with Technicolor, though, and that caught on in the '30s. The earlier two-color form of technicolor were based on red and green. Sometimes it was just used in single scenes, like in the very beginning of Seven Chances or in the party scene in The Phantom of the Opera (I think there was additional Technicolor color footage too, but I don't believe the version I watched close to 10 years ago had anything else). The last full-length two-strip Technicolor movies were Doctor X (1932) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933).

There were also other processes used back in the day, like these much earlier experimental examples. Then there hand-tinted color. The Battleship Potemkin had the communist flag colored in to be red, and The Lost World had the flame of a torch tinted orange in one scene. There were copies of A Trip to the Moon that were hand colored all the way through the film (short as it is), and that was back in 1902. That's not even mentioning the practice of just tinting entire frames, which was basically expected back then:
https://moviessilently.com/2019/02/20/please-post-this-in-its-original-black-and-white-form-or-how-tinting-toning-and-hand-color-have-been-lost-to-modern-audiences/

Sort of related, there's a plethora of these AI upscaled/colorized remasters of early archival reels of cities that might be of interest. This one is from NYC 1911, you will see some of the earliest automobiles operating side by side with horse-drawn carriages.

>>371701
I've always found those nice to watch. My only concern is that those kinds of videos will overshadow the original films and make them harder to find. I wouldn't want there to be anything like a Star Wars situation, where it's harder to find the unaltered versions than the ones that have been screwed around with. That's a bit of a different situation though.

They Shall Not Grow Old executed that concept better than anything else out there that I know of.
>>371703
>but that dont mean it is a full silent film in color, dont it.
There were a few besides The Black Pirate. The Toll of the Sea and The Wanderer of the Wasteland were fully color from what I'm reading, but I think the ones after those might have been silents featuring recorded sound. There was The Gulf Between back in 1917, but that was lost.

>>371697
Also, color usually only worked well for movies that were supposed to look bright and vibrant. Black and white was better for darker (visually I mean) films. When color became mandatory in the late 60s, you can tell they still hadn't figured out how to make dark movies look good in color yet.

>>371707
Did you get to see it in 3D?

>>371712
No, I've never had the chance to watch a movie in 3D.

>>371713
Sorry to hear that. I forgot that film existed and I slept on it when it ran in theaters in 3D, and they never released the 3D version on Blu-ray.

>>371714
I don't think it ever showed at my local theater. Come to think of it, I don't know if my local theater has ever been equipped to show anything in 3D. It's been over a decade since I last went there, and even then the last couple of movies I went to I wasn't very interested in seeing in the first place.

>>371715
My city didn't get a mega plex until 2009, before that we had a decrepit little movie theater with 3 or 4 screens, so most of us went to the nearest city 30 minutes away for a better experience. Now, we get everything, and it's great, I try to patronize the theater here from time to time.

>>371722
There's a historic theater maybe an hour and a half away from me that I'd like to attend at some point when they show something old. Too bad I'm a homebody who hates driving.

>>371747
That sounds like it might be worth it, depending on how the traffic is near you. I live about an hour and a half from Orlando, but I never go to the attractions, because the interstates have gotten too dangerous. I suppose I could take a different route, but it would take twice as long to get there.