The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for November 04, 2018

In the original showing of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” 1939, the sequences at the beginning and end were sepia toned, not B/W.

I kind of assumed that they had the words for all the colors, but just saw them as highly specific shades of gray.

And Z51 is right. The pillow is sort of pinkish, and there are a few patches of subdued color on the quilt as well.

Yellow: The same shade as the corn.

Green: The shade the Kansas grass gets one month a year.

Blue: The feeling you get the other 11 months.

Follow the very light grey road!

Actually the B/W scenes were in “Tepia” I believe it was called. Like a brownish tint.

Dorothy looks like Data in drag..!

You can have any color you want, as long as it’s grey.

This is just cruel.

Random fact: The Wizard of Oz was shown for the very first time ever in my hometown, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. 1939. The thinking was that if small town folks liked it, they could release it in bigger markets. If it was a total bust, no one would be the wiser.

Shouldn’t be black and white. It was sepia.

“Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield, Blue was just the Kansas summer sky.” – “Matthew,” lyrics and music by John Denver.

Clever.

It must be rough to dream in color while living in a black and white world.

The slight coloration is a marvelous, subtle touch that adds greatly to the cartoon. Sepia: 1. a reddish-brown color associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries. I really love this comic!

Several years ago the Washington Post had a readers contest to pick new mottoes for the states. One of the entries was “Kansas. The black and white part of the movie.”

I’ve never seen Oz in a theater. When I was a kid all we had were B & W televisions. I bet I was at least 10 or 11 before I finally saw the color switch during the movie. Couldn’t believe what I had been missing.

Speaking of color, that reminds me about one of the Calvin & Hobbes strips where Calvin asked his dad why certain photos were in black & white and his dad’s smart-assed explanation.

My 88-year-old mother-in-law described the magic of seeing it for the first time. The new technology of color had been heard of but she had never experienced it before.

Also reminds me of the very last Far Side cartoon. [here insert nostalgic sigh]

Toto (thinking): “I don’t remember any of those colors.”

The grass is always greener over the rainbow.