I have a question for those knowledgeable about the film. While listening to the soundtrack on youtube, I came across a group of colorized clips of it. Being a fan of the movie, this surprised me (its shot in B&W). My questions are: 1. Was it shot in color and converted to B&W later for the theatrical release; or was the original B&W version colorized post-shooting for some reason? Is the color version available for sale? Pehla nasha song free download. I am mainly just curious - I like the B&W release just fine, but wouldn't mind watching the color version.

Apr 28, 2004  The longest Day? Color version? Discussion in 'DVD' started. I also prefer B&W over colorization, just that I heard from a friend that the film has been colorized that I want to see the effect of it. Thanks for the answer anyway! One of the main reasons I've read for filming The Longest Day in b/w was so they can integrate a lot of b/w. World War II in Colour. Are horrified when he expresses his intention to invade Russia, leading to history's largest-scale tank battle. Available to download.

For those that are interested, here are the clips. The colors seem significantly off (especially in the first clip), so I am guessing that it was colorized post-shooting. [YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]Thanks for the assistance. Click to expand.The vast bulk was shot/taken in black-and-white. Colour technology was very new indeed, and actually the Germans were ahead of the game with AGFA. Hence the very good colour photos taken for 'Signal'.

But for colour movie/newsreel footage, KODAK in the USA were very advanced ( just look at Wyler's 'Memphis Belle' footage ). Only toward the very end of the war were the Americans using truly portable colour cameras.

Britain lagged behind Germany and America in colour combat photography, both still and black-and-white. If they were deleting all the black and white footage and films from the archives and replacing it with colourised stuff i'd agree that it was a terrible thing - the fact that they're just giving everyone the option means that more people have the chance to see these items in the format which they prefer, so it opens the genre up to many more people. If they do a good job of it, and from what I've seen it's getting better all the time, there is nothing wrong with colourising black and white at all. I don't really mind either way, but some things are better in black and white, some better in colour. Luckily now we are starting to have the choice.

One of the very first World War II films made by an American studio in which the members of each country spoke nearly all their dialogue in the language of that country: the Germans spoke German, the French spoke French, and the Americans and the British spoke English. There were subtitles on the bottom of the screen to translate the various languages. There were two versions of this movie, one where all the actors spoke English and the other (the better known one) where the French and German actors spoke their respective languages. 20th Century Fox was taking a real gamble making this film.