9-29. turning up the volume.

The introduction of color into film was an aspect that sparked a revolution - for film to become more real. Any color among black and white tradition is so intriguing; the pigments seem to POP off the screen. We see this in "Hello, Dolly" with its saturated reds and golds, or as Dorothy first finds herself in Munchkin Land among a bouquet of new hues and a yellow brick road. And I may have watched the colored fashion show scene from "The Women" a hundred times over if I was developing into my twenties in the same era color took the stage - the clothes and shoes are beautiful, and in a fashion sense, highly influential on some designs we see today. As the "real" revolution took new heights, audio jumped on the bandwagon. "Earthquake" of the 1920s may have caused some commotion in the theatres with its realistic sound fades and separated frequencies, but my uncultured mother ;) has yet to see the film or experience its "sense-around" audio qualities. I asked. She hadn't even heard of the thing. And after digital remastering and audio technologies of today, I am doubting it would have quite the same effect on her now.