Posted by Christian J. on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/soundtrack-discussion-tp1501042p1501046.html

Anthony D. wrote:
-----> To the best of my knowledge, my TV can not remove the color
(maybe I just haven't found the setting?) <-----

Anthony, I have a opinion which is called "colour
saturation". When I reduce it the picture becomes black and
white. I had this with all my TV sets so far but maybe some
telly's don't have it?

-----> I could be wrong, but I thought that sets to be filmed in b/w
weren't always painted in vivid colors <-----
and Marc:
-----> The people making the film KNEW that the film/show would be in
black & white, and they lit it accordingly. Often times black &
white movies can take advantage of the fact that they are in black &
white and make use of stark contrasts. However, when you colorize
the movie, the first thing you generally do is to reduce the
contrast, and then the act of colorizing reduces the contrast even
further. The final effect on the viewer is then different. Take a
look at the original OUTER LIMITS TV series -- they really took
advantage of the fact that they were shooting in black & white, and
any attempt to colorize it would dilute the viewing experience. <-----

Gentlemen, these are very good statements! I totally agree with you!
Maybe you've got the impression from my last posting that I'm
a fan of colourization which is *not* the case. For example, I'm
glad that MGM released the OUTER LIMITS DVDs in their original black
and white (and in mono). I only wanted to say that I have no problems
with colourization at all because it can't bother me (since
fading out the colour is possible for me) and it *could* be an
interesting experience. But if I couldn't fade out the colour it
*definitely would* bother me :-) But luckily they don't colorize
many movies and I don't remember a TV series which was colorized
so far.

Anthony D. wrote:
-----> That's totally different than what we are saying -- UFO was in
color to begin with. If you choose to continue to enjoy it in b/w
then that's your choice. <-----

I was only joking, Anthony ;-)

Marc wrote:
-----> Also, for the folks who have this CD, what do you think of the
track selection? There's an awful lot of music from UFO that didn't
make it into this CD, so I'm wondering if you think the choice of
tracks was appropriate? Are there specific music pieces that you were
hoping to hear that aren't on this CD? <-----

I find it well done. It's really interesting to listen to cues
which were composed for the episodes but not used (at least not in
the episodes which they were composed for). I'd like to listen to
the music from the episodes THE RESPONSIBILITY SEAT and REFLECTIONS
IN THE WATER or MINDBENDER e.g., on the other hand the title theme
from RESPONSIBILTY SEAT can be heard on CD 2 in the middle of track
19 ("Beginning to take shape") and some cues from REFLECTIONS
and other episodes are available on the SPACE: 1999 Year One discs
(like the Ellis-removes-the-Alien-helmet sequence from ORDEAL which
can be heard on disc 2 Track 6 "The Cuckoo" [from ALPHA
CHILD]).

But I hope that Fanderson will release another UFO (double?) CD! (And
what about the soundtracks from STINGRAY and JOE 90? :-)

Christian