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   [Default] Thus spake RT :   
      
   >Ian B wrote:   
      
      
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Agreed.  Although you should probably admit that "The Wizard of Oz"   
   HAD to be shot in color.  Except that was only for the dream part. And   
   the transition is still one of the greatest in movie history.   
      
   Scratch that.  Remove "one of".   
   --   
      
   - dillon  I am not invalid   
      
   So Kim Jung Ill shows up at the barbecue.  "Wait,"   
   says Qadaffi, "you don't have any peircings."  "If you   
   starve your people enough they'll be too weak to rebbel."   
   "You have the same number of holes in your head as when   
   you were born," says bin Laden. "My compound had radar   
   and antiacraft misslles." "Your neck," shouted Hussein,   
   "it's the same length."  "I didn't piss on W's father."   
   "Then what happened?" the three asked.  "Damned counterfiet   
   Lipitor and insulin!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)