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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <4F5D8487.22307895@hotmMOVEail.com>,   
   RT   wrote:   
   >Ian B wrote:   
   >> RT wrote:   
   >> > The Doctor wrote:   
   >> >> In article <4F0FB670.58BBFEA0@hotmMOVEail.com>,   
   >> >> RT   wrote:   
   >> >>> Jette Goldie wrote:   
   >> >>>> On 03/09/2011 00:58, Lloyd E Parsons wrote:   
   >> >>>>> On 9/2/11 6:02 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:   
   >> >>>>>> On 9/2/2011 8:51 AM, David Johnston wrote:   
   >> >>>>>>> On 9/2/2011 2:07 AM, TMC wrote:   
   >> >>>>>>>   
   >> >>>>>>>> 2. Making Flash Gordon non-space-bound.   
   >> >>>>>>>> This one still makes us scratch our heads. You get to do the   
   >> >>>>>>>> rights of one of space opera's most recognizable characters,   
   >> >>>>>>>> who's famous for flying around on rockets and battling against   
   >> >>>>>>>> aliens in space — and you never put him on a spaceship.   
   >> >>>>>>>   
   >> >>>>>>> Flash Gordon battled aliens in spaceships? News to me. Buck   
   >> >>>>>>> Rogers did a lot of spaceship stuff, but Flash was restricted   
   >> >>>>>>> to Mongo.   
   >> >>>>>>>   
   >> >>>>>>   
   >> >>>>>> Didn't he get to Mongo in a spaceship? My knowledge of the   
   >> >>>>>> character is a bit limited but I always considered spaceships   
   >> >>>>>> and space battles to be part of Flash Gordon. The TV version   
   >> >>>>>> changed it from battling aliens on another planet to battling   
   >> >>>>>> featherless hawk people in another dimension.   
   >> >>>>>   
   >> >>>>> Yep, both Flash Gordon the movie, and Flesh Gordon the bit racier   
   >> >>>>> version, showed Flash traveling by spaceship.   
   >> >>>>   
   >> >>>> some of us are old enough to remember the old black and white   
   >> >>>> serial Flash Gordon, with its rocketships.  (ok, not quite old   
   >> >>>> enough to see the serial in cinemas, but during the summer   
   >> >>>> holidays BBC used to show them daily to keep us kids amused)   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> And you can buy them.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Black and white is very passe now.   
   >> >   
   >> > So? Lots of classic movies in BW and they still get watched and   
   >> > bought.   
   >> >   
   >> > And look at one of the current oscar contenders, BW *and* silent...   
   >>   
   >> Yes, but that's just being retro for the sake of it, like 8 bit computer   
   >> music, not because it's actually any better than colour and sound.   
   >>   
   >> Movies were shot on black and white stock because (a) colour wasn't   
   >> available and then (b) when it was, black and white film stock was cheaper.   
   >   
   >And more's the pity for it. Film noir, moodiness is not doable in color.   
      
   Black and White still lives.   
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