29-10-2022, 12:25 AM
(28-10-2022, 06:21 PM)Ian Wegg Wrote: When it comes to classic movies then yes I would agree with you. But these are documentary films, I'm sure the original film-makers would happily have used wide-screen colour stock and recorded the sound if the technology had been available to them. I don't believe preserving "artistic integrity" comes into it here.
What I find extraordinary is that these little films exist at all. Somebody decided to record ordinary street scenes of London, at some length. To what original purpose I can't imagine, but whoever it was and why ... we can be very glad they did it.
Coloured versions of old documentaries brings them alive in my view- you feel as though you are there. The original black and white originals are just that - no feeling of the time and place. After all the original scenes were in colour!