[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

Richard Knoppow wrote (in part):


One of the few exceptions to this is the opening of
_The Wizard of OZ_ which is in B&W and switches to color
when Dorothy enters Oz. This is done because the author, L.
Frank Baum, described Kansas as being all gray. I think one
can find few other examples that work.



     I could go on about this sort of stuff but its sort of
OT here and IMO irrelevant to the subject.
I was a kid in the 1940s when I first saw that movie. In grade school they sometimes showed us (16mm) black and white movies in assembly. So when I saw _The Wizard of OZ_ it was really stunning. I do not imagine it would have as much impact to people used to seeing color movies and television all the time. I do not believe TWOO was the first feature length color movie, but it must have been one of the early ones.
I wonder if it has been cut. Whenever I see it these days (on television), I miss scenes that I definitely remember from the movie I saw in a theatre. 

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