The Addams Family's living room was pink (Page 1/7)
MidEngineManiac NOV 29, 04:28 AM
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pokeyfiero NOV 29, 04:34 AM
Dear lord!

I'll take the black and white.


I don't remember no turtle!
84fiero123 NOV 29, 08:43 AM
And they had no ceilings, who would have thought.

I'm with Pokey, I'll take the black and white. The colors look like some Gay designed the place.

Steve

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Cooter NOV 29, 09:27 AM

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Originally posted by 84fiero123:
The colors look like some Gay designed the place.

Steve




In color, yes. But to have enough contrast to show up in black/white, strange colors are used to get the correct visual effect. Oh, crap...the photographer in me just came out. Sorry about that

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84fiero123 NOV 29, 10:32 AM

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Originally posted by Cooter:


In color, yes. But to have enough contrast to show up in black/white, strange colors are used to get the correct visual effect. Oh, crap...the photographer in me just came out. Sorry about that



Geek.

Steve
Marvin McInnis NOV 29, 11:18 AM

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Originally posted by Cooter:

In color, yes. But to have enough contrast to show up in black/white, strange colors are used to get the correct visual effect.




Yep. I worked in TV back before the transition to color. (Yes, I'm that old.) We sometimes had to use some pretty weird tricks to make things look right in B&W. Making food in B&W commercials look appetizing was often particularly challenging. B&W film had different characteristics than B&W TV, so you couldn't always use the same techniques for both media.

In the case of the Addams Family, light reflected from the pink surroundings may have cause the actors' skin tones to look even more surreal in B&W ... or that may just have been the color they had available in the prop room the day they painted the set.

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tebailey NOV 29, 12:12 PM
Pink room with a noose?? OMG, they were gay racists!
williegoat NOV 29, 12:38 PM

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Originally posted by tebailey:

Pink room with a noose?? OMG, they were gay racists!



Cooter NOV 29, 03:01 PM

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Originally posted by Marvin McInnis:


Yep. I worked in TV back before the transition to color. (Yes, I'm that old.)




What was life like back before they invented color? I imagine a black and white rainbow just did not have the same appeal, or your box of crayons only having 2 colors probably got boring pretty quickly...
84fiero123 NOV 29, 03:54 PM

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Originally posted by Cooter:


What was life like back before they invented color? I imagine a black and white rainbow just did not have the same appeal, or your box of crayons only having 2 colors probably got boring pretty quickly...



Hey give Marv a brake we used to drag race on rock unicycles back then.



Steve