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unusual facts about Black and White



Around the World with Three Dog Night

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Bad Ambassador

Filmed in black and white, it features a Bigfoot working in a paper factory and dreaming of a better life with a co-worker.

Charles Norris Williamson

Charles Norris (C N) Williamson (1859–1920) was a British writer, motoring journalist and founder of the Black and White who was perhaps best known for his collaboration with his wife, Alice Muriel Williamson, in a number of novels and travelogues.

Fran Saleški Finžgar

In 1940, the Prešeren House and the village were filmed for the black and white sound documentary O, Vrba.

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

The Terror from Beyond Space is an independently made 1958 black and white science fiction film that was produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, and released by United Artists.

J-Setting

Video director Jake Nava spent the majority of the video budget on shooting "If I Were a Boy," confident that the production team could create something unique in the same black and white style in which the first video was shot.

James Jarché

Tasked with photographing the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in black and white for Odhams Press, he reportedly also took colour photographs, which he sold independently, and was therefore sacked by Odhams.

Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits

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Marla Maples

She also appeared as an actress in the award-winning 1998 Todd Solondz movie Happiness and in the 1999 movie Black and White.

Once Upon a Mattress

The production was videotaped in black and white in front of a live audience and featured Burnett, Bova, Gilford, and White from the original Broadway cast, as well as new principals Bill Hayes as the Minstrel, Shani Wallis as Lady Larken and Elliott Gould as the Jester.

Seen the Light

It is mainly black and white footage (however, there is a brief period of colour film around the middle eight) of music concert goers, people experiencing religious revelations and preacher men.

Seven Separate Fools

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The Best of 3 Dog Night

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Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy

It retains the same swirling effect for the titlecard, but with the words "Dark Fantasy" added underneath, the title also remains black and white.

You Ought to Be in Pictures

The film could also be seen in its original black and white form on the short-lived "Golden Jubilee" video collection of the mid-1980s, Cartoon Network's installment show Late Night Black and White, and Nick at Nite's version of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon.

Despite being in black and white, this short was shown regularly on Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, particularly during the Nick at Nite version.


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1921–22 Torquay United F.C. season

Crad Evans, Torquay Town's star striker, was installed as player-manager and the new team adopted a black and white strip which soon earned them the nickname of 'the Magpies'.

1960 FA Cup Final

As well as television the game was also broadcast live on BBC Radio while black and white newsreel footage from both Pathé and Movietone was screened in cinemas that evening.

Ahl Al Esheg

the video is in black and white, it was directed in London and shows all the British people walking reverse while Diana Haddad is walking in the right way and singing.

Andrew Stark

Similar to Cartier-Bresson, he shoots in black and white on his Konica TC with 28 or 40mm lens only for his candid photography.

Apple II graphics

All Apple II machines featured an RCA jack providing a rough NTSC, PAL, or SECAM composite video output (on non-NTSC machines before the Apple IIe this output is black-and-white only).

Best of Little Walter

The album cover features a black-and-white photo portrait shot by Grammy award winning photographer Don Bronstein of Little Walter holding/playing a Hohner 64 Chromatic harmonica and liner notes by Studs Terkel, who had written Giants of Jazz.

Black and White Ball

Princess Yasmin Aga Khan hosted a Black and White Ball in 1991, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the original.

Black and White Taxicab and Transfer Company v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab and Transfer Company

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad signed an exclusive contract with the Black and White Taxicab company to pick up customers at the railroad station in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Bob Van Reeth

Later buildings include in 2007 a new wing for the Westvleteren Abbey, and the black-and-white Huis Van Roosmalen facing the Scheldt in Antwerp.

Burma Chronicles

Edith Mirante of The Irrawaddy was more critical of the book, calling Delisle's grasp on Burmese politics "literally sketchy" and saying that Delisle lacked "the black and white bravura of other graphic storytellers such as Marjane Satrapi... or Alison Bechdel...".

Chanel J12

The range is known for its black and white high-tech ceramic watches worn by celebrities such as Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Fearne Cotton, Dale Winton and others.

Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California

Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California (also known as Coffee and Cigarettes III) is a 1993 black-and-white short film directed by writer/director Jim Jarmusch shot in Northern California.

Colorization

Film colorization - a process that adds color to black and white, sepia or monochrome moving-picture images

Dear Mother...Love Albert

The DVD notes state that no colour version of this series ever existed; the series was filmed in black and white because of the ITV Colour Strike.

Down Our Street

Down Our Street is a 1932 black and white film directed by Harry Lachman.

Edward Brandis Denham

Imperialism and democracy were as difficult to merge as black and white, but the British genius for compromise and putting blind eyes to unpleasant facts had indeed brought forth a workable system.

Faina Ranevskaya

It was a silent black and white film based on the novel Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant where she starred as Madame Loiseau.

Flag of Saint Lucia

The triangles represent the island’s famous twin Pitons at Soufrière, the Cerulean Blue represents the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the gold represents the prevailing sunshine in the Caribbean and the black and white stand for the cultural influences of the nation.

Francis in the Haunted House

Francis in the Haunted House is a 1956 black-and-white comedy film, the last in the Francis the Talking Mule series, but without the talents of previous director Arthur Lubin, human star Donald O'Connor and Francis' best-known voice Chill Wills.

Greed Magazine

The first three issues (Late Winter, 1986; Spring, 1987; Fall, 1987) were entirely black and white, with covers by Peter Hayes, while the last three featured color covers, done respectively by Charles Burns (cartoonist), Los Bros Hernandez, and Bob Burden.

Guram Dolenjashvili

Many of his works are landscapes made in black and white, using a graphite pencil or etching with slightly surrealist shifting of reality still he is often considered a follower of traditions Russian realist landscapers of Ivan Shishkin and Yuly Klever.

H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

The Call of Cthulhu (2005) – Directed by Andrew Leman and described by one reviewer as the most successful adaptation of this story, this silent movie was filmed in black and white.

Heroes of the Equinox

It was later republished in black and white in July 1996 by Fantasy Flight Publishing (an offshoot of Fantasy Flight Games) as a two part comic book.

Hotel Chevalier

A man (Jason Schwartzman) lies on a hotel bed in a yellow bathrobe, watching the black-and-white American war film Stalag 17 and reading the newspaper.

Imperial Shag

The Imperial Shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps) is a black and white cormorant native to many subantarctic islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal regions, but locally also at large inland lakes.

Jack Falls

Based on the graphic novel of the same title by Paul Tanter, the movie is a contemporary film noir shot in London in high contrast black and white with splashes of colour particularly reminiscent of the Robert Rodriguez film Sin City, but with a harder, grittier edge.

Johnny Rocco

Johnny Rocco is a 1958 American black-and-white crime film produced by Scott R. Dunlap and directed by Paul Landres for Allied Artists, and starring Richard Eyer, Stephen McNally, and Coleen Gray.

Jonathan Allen

Large black-and-white photographic images depicting Tommy Angel, were exhibited at The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK (2005), David Risely Gallery (2006), and Singapore Biennale (2006).

Kerosene Hat

Contributing to the song's success was a noir-ish, black-and-white video shot by director Carlos Grasso, which was added to MTV's Buzz Bin.

Lester Lanin

In 1999 Lester Lanin played himself in the black-and-white film comedy Man of the Century, where he was the favorite musician of lead character Johnny Twennies.

Lew Dietz

Reissued in 1998, the book combines Dietz's words with Kosti Ruohomaa's (1914-1961) black and white photographs of ordinary rural and fishing industry Mainers.

Magic Eye

Christopher Tyler created the first black-and-white autostereograms in 1979 with the assistance of computer programmer Maureen Clarke.

Minor comics by Hergé

It was initially published in black and white in the Paris Match magazine (No. 1073, 29 Novembre 1969, pp. 30–33) five days after the return of the crew to earth, and was later released as part of a hardback book.

Mutual Appreciation

Shot in black-and-white, the film stars Justin Rice of the indie rock band Bishop Allen and features music from the band's debut album Charm School.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

He also filmed Pripyat (1999), a black-and-white look at residents who live near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

Norman McCabe

He moved over to Bob Clampett's unit in 1938 where he animated and/or co-directed several classic black and white Looney Tunes.

Outside World

Version 1 is a spectacular black-and-white affair featuring Claudia Brucken being stalked by Mabuse (actor Vladek Sheybal), through a dark and eerie castle full of monks.

Over-the-air

OTA bitmap, a proprietary specification for black and white images for mobile phones

Phantasies

The series, featuring characters such as Willoughby Wren and Superkatt, is notable as being the last theatrical animated series produced in black-and-white.

Texarkana Moonlight Murders

The picture is of her at her former home in Douglassville, Texas with her arm wrapped around a black and white dog.

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty is a 1938 American black-and-white war film directed by Stuart Paton and produced by H. W. Kier and Norman Sheldon.

The Earrings of Madame de...

In 1954, Georges Annenkov and Rosine Delamare were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design (black and white) but lost to Edith Head for Sabrina.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.

The Indestructible Man

Indestructible Man, a black-and-white second-feature science fiction film starring Lon Chaney, Jr., made in 1956

The Proud and Profane

It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).

Things That Go Pump in the Night

The tape cover features the same black and white photo used on the 1989 Pump album cover, of a smaller International K Series truck on top of a larger International KB Series truck, with the word pump in place of the chrome International markings on the side of both hoods.

To Catch the Uncatchable

Scenes of memories and sorrow background music "Someplace Good" kicks in, with the show ending with the wedding photo of the couple turning black and white with Mok slowly fading away, leaving Vivi alone in the photo, which implies that Mok had died after falling down.

White-cheeked Honeyeater

Other black and white honeyeaters are much smaller, including the Crescent (P. pyrrhoptera), Tawny-crowned (Gliciphila melanops) and White-fronted Honeyeaters (P. albifrons).

WPRR

Programs aired on the station include Radio in Black and White, Democracy Now!, Sierra Club Radio, Reality Check, Reasonable Doubts, Southpaws, The Union Edge, Faith and Reason, Ring of Fire, Law and Disorder, The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, Culture Wars Radio, Ask the Naked Scientists, and many other shows.