Toland thought black and white to be so important that he said in an article for Theater Arts magazine shortly after “Citizen Kane’s” release in 1941, “Color will continue to be improved but will never be a hundred percent successful.
Famous among these is Gregg Toland who photographed “Citizen Kane.” Classic Film Noir dictated black and white – what was happening in the shadows sometimes was just as important as what was happening in the pools of light.Ĭinematographers used the light, the lens and the speed and quality of the film stock to “color” their images. Strangelove” in anything but black and white. I can’t imagine such classics as “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” “Psycho” or “Dr. We still revere the classic black and white, even though some have tried to retrofit films shot in monochrome to color. All of them were originally brought to you in spectacular monochrome. It would be another fifty years before film began to move (the 1890’s) and another 30 or so years for television to begin its birthing process (1926). The beginning of the photochemical film process came in the form of still photography at the end of the first quarter of the 19 th century (around 1826).
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